Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Aristotle

2.

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

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

5.

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

Socrates

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

8.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

9.

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

Bellow, Saul

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Claudius

15.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

16.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

19.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

21.

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

Bible

22.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

26.

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

27.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

28.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

29.

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

King Edward the Third

30.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

Evil spelled backward is live.

33.

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

Ayn Rand

34.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

35.

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

Burroughs, William S.

36.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

38.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

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

40.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

41.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

46.

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

Homer

47.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

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

James, William

49.

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

50.

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