Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hood, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil spelled backward is live.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

5.

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

6.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

10.

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

Hood, Thomas

11.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

12.

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.

13.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

14.

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

Masters, Brian

15.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

16.

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

Buddha

17.

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

Lerner, Max

18.

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

Edmund Burke

19.

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

Ayn Rand

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

22.

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

Mae West

23.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

24.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

25.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Cioran, E. M.

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Bellow, Saul

35.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

36.

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

37.

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

Carlin, George

38.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Blaise Pascal

42.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

43.

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

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

King Edward the Third

47.

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

48.

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

Burroughs, William S.

49.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

50.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle