Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Auden, W. H.

2.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.

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

Mary Renault

4.

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

5.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

6.

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

Crowley, Aleister

7.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

8.

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

Buddha

9.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

13.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

King Edward the Third

17.

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

Simone Weil

18.

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

19.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

20.

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

21.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

24.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

25.

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

Bellow, Saul

26.

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

Carlin, George

27.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

Horton, Doug

30.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

31.

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

James, William

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

35.

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

Hesiod

36.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

Claudius

39.

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

40.

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

Blaise Pascal

41.

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

42.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

43.

The evil that we know is best.