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

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

Mary Renault

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Claudius

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

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Hood, Thomas

10.

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.

11.

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

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

Bible

14.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

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

16.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

17.

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

Lerner, Max

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

22.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

23.

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

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

26.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

27.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

30.

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

Cioran, E. M.

31.

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

Crowley, Aleister

32.

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

Edmund Burke

33.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

35.

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

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

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

Hesiod

40.

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

41.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

42.

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

43.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

45.

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

Bellow, Saul

46.

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

Simone Weil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

49.

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

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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