Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Weber, C. J.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Voltaire

2.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

3.

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

Blaise Pascal

4.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

5.

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

6.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb, American

9.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

10.

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

Socrates

11.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

12.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

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

Mary Renault

14.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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

Homer

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

21.

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

James, William

22.

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.

23.

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

Masters, Brian

24.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

25.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

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

27.

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

Lerner, Max

28.

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

Bellow, Saul

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

34.

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

Ayn Rand

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Bischer

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

41.

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

42.

Evil spelled backward is live.

43.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

44.

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

45.

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

Phaedrus

46.

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

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

49.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

50.

The end excuses any evil.