Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Buddha

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

10.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Simone Weil

13.

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.

14.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

15.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

19.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

20.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

21.

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

Bible

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hood, Thomas

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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

31.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

33.

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

Homer

34.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

35.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

36.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

42.

Evil spelled backward is live.

43.

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

44.

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

Horton, Doug

45.

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

King Edward the Third

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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

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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

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

Plato

49.

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

Bible

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

King Jr. Martin Luther