Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

West, Mae

7.

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

8.

Evil spelled backward is live.

9.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

10.

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

Hood, Thomas

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Lerner, Max

13.

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

Bible

14.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

15.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

16.

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

Carlin, George

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

19.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Bischer

21.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

22.

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

Blaise Pascal

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

27.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

29.

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

Cioran, E. M.

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

32.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

34.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

35.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Mae West

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Proverb, American

44.

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

45.

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

James, William

46.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

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