Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

3.

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.

4.

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

Buddha

5.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

6.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

8.

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

9.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

10.

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

Burroughs, William S.

11.

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

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

16.

Evil spelled backward is live.

17.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

18.

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

Simone Weil

19.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

20.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

22.

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

23.

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

King Edward the Third

24.

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

Claudius

25.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

26.

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

Blaise Pascal

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

29.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

32.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

33.

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

34.

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

James, William

35.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

36.

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

Mae West

37.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Masters, Brian

42.

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

43.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

44.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

45.

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

46.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Bischer

49.

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

50.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John