Motivational Quotes

Evil

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

2.

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

3.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

4.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

5.

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

Cioran, E. M.

6.

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

Weber, C. J.

7.

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

Burroughs, William S.

8.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

9.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

10.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

12.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

13.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

14.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

16.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

17.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

23.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

24.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

25.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

Plato

28.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

30.

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

Mary Renault

31.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

36.

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

Phaedrus

37.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

38.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

39.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

40.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

41.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

42.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.