Motivational Quotes

Evil

The evil that we know is best.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

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

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

Plato

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

Mary Renault

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Weber, C. J.

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

15.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

16.

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

Mae West

17.

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

18.

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

Lerner, Max

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

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.

23.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

24.

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

Ayn Rand

25.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

26.

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

Horton, Doug

27.

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.

28.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

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

Hesiod

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

34.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

Masters, Brian

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

43.

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

Blaise Pascal

44.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

45.

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

46.

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

Bischer

47.

Evil spelled backward is live.

48.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

49.

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

50.

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