Motivational Quotes

Evil

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Hesiod

2.

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

3.

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

Mary Renault

4.

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

5.

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

Voltaire

6.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

7.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

King Edward the Third

12.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

13.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

14.

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

Auden, W. H.

15.

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

16.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Bischer

25.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

26.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

27.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

28.

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

Phaedrus

29.

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

Simone Weil

30.

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

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

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

Claudius

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Hood, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Proverb, American

38.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

39.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

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

Cioran, E. M.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Homer

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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