Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

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Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Mary Renault

2.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

3.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

4.

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

Auden, W. H.

5.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

6.

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

Eliot, George

7.

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

8.

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

Claudius

9.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

10.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

11.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

Hood, Thomas

15.

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

Cioran, E. M.

16.

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

Socrates

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

24.

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

Phaedrus

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Simone Weil

27.

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

28.

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

Ayn Rand

29.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Weber, C. J.

33.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

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

Crowley, Aleister

35.

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

36.

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

West, Mae

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

39.

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

Mae West

40.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

41.

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

Hesiod

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Bischer

46.

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

Bellow, Saul

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

Horton, Doug

50.

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