Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

2.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

3.

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

4.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

5.

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

Plato

6.

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

7.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

8.

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

Proverb, American

9.

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

Burroughs, William S.

10.

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

Mae West

11.

Evil spelled backward is live.

12.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

16.

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

Simone Weil

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

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

20.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

23.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Claudius

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

30.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

31.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

36.

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

Homer

37.

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

Bible

38.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

39.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

42.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

43.

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

Cioran, E. M.

44.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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

48.

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

Crowley, Aleister

49.

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

Buddha

50.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle