Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Evil

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.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Simone Weil

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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.

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

Crowley, Aleister

12.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

13.

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

Hesiod

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

16.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

17.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

18.

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

Hood, Thomas

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

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

Carlin, George

21.

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

Claudius

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

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

Mary Renault

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Plato

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

32.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

34.

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

Bellow, Saul

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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

Bischer

37.

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.

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

Masters, Brian

42.

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

43.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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

45.

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

Ayn Rand

46.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

James, William

49.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

50.

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

Bible

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