Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Socrates

3.

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

4.

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

Eliot, George

5.

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.

6.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

7.

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

Carlin, George

8.

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

Hoffer, Eric

9.

Evil spelled backward is live.

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Plato

12.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

15.

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

James, William

16.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

17.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

18.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

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

Homer

21.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

22.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

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

24.

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

Claudius

25.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

26.

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

27.

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

Edmund Burke

28.

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

29.

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

Bellow, Saul

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

32.

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

Weber, C. J.

33.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

35.

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

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.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

Lerner, Max

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

Buddha

43.

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

Hesiod

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