Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

- Edward II

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bible

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Masters, Brian

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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Carlin, George

10.

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

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

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

Homer

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

Lerner, Max

27.

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

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

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

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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.

37.

Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

39.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

40.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

41.

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

42.

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

Simone Weil

43.

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.

44.

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

Hood, Thomas

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

47.

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