Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

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Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Auden, W. H.

3.

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

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

Weber, C. J.

8.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

9.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

10.

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.

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

14.

Evil spelled backward is live.

15.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

16.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

18.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

Mary Renault

21.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

22.

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

Bellow, Saul

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

25.

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

Cioran, E. M.

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

28.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

29.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

30.

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

Phaedrus

31.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

37.

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

38.

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