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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

2.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

3.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

4.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

6.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

7.

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

Mae West

8.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

9.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

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

12.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

19.

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

20.

Evil spelled backward is live.

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Socrates

23.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

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

26.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Homer

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Phaedrus

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

37.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Carlin, George

39.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

40.

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

Hood, Thomas

41.

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

Ayn Rand

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

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

Bellow, Saul

47.

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

48.

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

King Edward the Third

49.

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

James, William

50.

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

Hemingway, Ernest