Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

2.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

8.

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

Hesiod

9.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

10.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

13.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

17.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

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

James, William

24.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Bible

26.

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.

27.

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

Simone Weil

28.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

29.

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

Hood, Thomas

30.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Masters, Brian

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

36.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Mae West

40.

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

Crowley, Aleister

41.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

42.

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

King Edward the Third

43.

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

44.

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

Edmund Burke

45.

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

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

47.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

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

Weber, C. J.

49.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

50.

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

Maistre, Joseph De