Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

4.

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

5.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

6.

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

Weber, C. J.

7.

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

Proverb, American

8.

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

Edmund Burke

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

13.

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

14.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

15.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

16.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

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

Bischer

24.

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

25.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

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

Crowley, Aleister

30.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

31.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

32.

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

Mary Renault

33.

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

Carlin, George

34.

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.

35.

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

Proverb

36.

Evil spelled backward is live.

37.

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

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Plato

39.

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

40.

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

King Edward the Third

41.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

42.

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

43.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.