Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Weber, C. J.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

2.

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

West, Mae

3.

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

James, William

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Eliot, George

6.

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

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

9.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

10.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

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

Mary Renault

14.

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.

15.

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

Phaedrus

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

19.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

22.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

23.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

Evil spelled backward is live.

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

29.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

30.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

Crowley, Aleister

33.

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

34.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

35.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

36.

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

Bischer

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Socrates

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

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.

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

Hesiod

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

44.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

45.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

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

Mae West

48.

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

Horton, Doug

49.

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

Claudius

50.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.