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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

3.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

8.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

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.

10.

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

Carlin, George

11.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

12.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

13.

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

14.

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

Edmund Burke

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

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

17.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

King Edward the Third

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

26.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

Masters, Brian

30.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

33.

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

Phaedrus

34.

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

Hood, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

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

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

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

Claudius

40.

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

Lerner, Max

41.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

42.

Evil spelled backward is live.

43.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Weber, C. J.

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Blaise Pascal

47.

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

48.

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

Mae West

49.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

50.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.