Motivational Quotes

Evil

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

2.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

3.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

4.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

5.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

6.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

7.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

8.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

9.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

10.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

12.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

13.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

14.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

15.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

17.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

22.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

23.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

26.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

27.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

28.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

29.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

30.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

31.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

32.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

33.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

34.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

35.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

36.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

37.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

38.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

40.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

41.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

42.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

43.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

44.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

45.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

46.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.