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.

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

2.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

3.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

4.

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

Bischer

5.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

6.

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

Mae West

7.

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

James, William

8.

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

Lerner, Max

9.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Plato

18.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

23.

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

Claudius

24.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Masters, Brian

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

29.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

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

32.

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

Bellow, Saul

33.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

34.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

35.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

36.

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

Homer

37.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

43.

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

Burroughs, William S.

44.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

45.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Crowley, Aleister

47.

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

48.

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

Ayn Rand

49.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

50.

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