Motivational Quotes

Evil

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Phaedrus

5.

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

6.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

7.

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

Horton, Doug

8.

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

Plato

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

Carlin, George

12.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

13.

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

Hesiod

14.

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

Bellow, Saul

15.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

Simone Weil

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Cioran, E. M.

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

22.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

23.

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.

24.

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

Mae West

25.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

26.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

27.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

33.

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

Lerner, Max

34.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

Bischer

40.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

41.

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

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.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

44.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

45.

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

Blaise Pascal

46.

Evil spelled backward is live.