Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Edmund Burke

2.

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

Burroughs, William S.

3.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

4.

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

Proverb, American

5.

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

Horton, Doug

6.

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

Mae West

7.

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

Hesiod

8.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

9.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

15.

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

16.

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

Masters, Brian

17.

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

18.

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

Carlin, George

19.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

Simone Weil

24.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

26.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

27.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

28.

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

29.

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

Auden, W. H.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Bible

34.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

35.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

36.

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

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Evil spelled backward is live.

39.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

40.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

41.

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

Buddha

42.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

43.

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

44.

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

Cioran, E. M.

45.

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

Proverb

46.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

47.

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

48.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

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

Hesiod