Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

King Edward the Third

6.

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

7.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

8.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

9.

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

Homer

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

12.

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

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

15.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

16.

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

Claudius

17.

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

Ayn Rand

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Plato

20.

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

Mae West

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

Evil spelled backward is live.

23.

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

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

26.

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

Mary Renault

27.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

28.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

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

Carlin, George

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

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

36.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

37.

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

38.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

45.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

46.

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