Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

2.

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

Crowley, Aleister

3.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

4.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

5.

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

Hoffer, Eric

6.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

9.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

10.

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

Simone Weil

11.

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.

12.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

13.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

14.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Horton, Doug

16.

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

Masters, Brian

17.

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

Plato

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.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

20.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

21.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

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

Socrates

23.

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

Bischer

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

27.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

28.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

31.

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

32.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

33.

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

Cioran, E. M.

34.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

35.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

36.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

37.

Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

40.

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

Proverb

41.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

42.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

43.

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

44.

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

Ayn Rand

45.

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

46.

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

Burroughs, William S.

47.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

48.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

50.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest