Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Haydon, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Voltaire

2.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

3.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

4.

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

Crowley, Aleister

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

7.

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

Socrates

8.

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

Ayn Rand

9.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

10.

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

11.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

12.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

13.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

14.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

Weber, C. J.

16.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

Bischer

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

21.

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.

22.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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.

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

Proverb

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Cioran, E. M.

29.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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

31.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

32.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

33.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

34.

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

Carlin, George

35.

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

36.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Horton, Doug

42.

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

James, William

43.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

49.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

50.

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

Bellow, Saul