Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

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

Lerner, Max

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.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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

Homer

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Bischer

10.

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

11.

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

12.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

13.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

14.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

15.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

16.

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

Phaedrus

17.

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

18.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

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

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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

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

26.

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

Cioran, E. M.

27.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

28.

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

King Edward the Third

29.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

30.

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

James, William

31.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

32.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Ayn Rand

34.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

35.

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

Auden, W. H.

36.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

41.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

42.

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

Blaise Pascal

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo