Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

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

Hesiod

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

Socrates

10.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

14.

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

Claudius

15.

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

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

19.

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

Crowley, Aleister

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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

Blaise Pascal

23.

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

24.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

25.

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

Edmund Burke

26.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

Burroughs, William S.

29.

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

King Edward the Third

30.

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

Bischer

31.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

Lerner, Max

39.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

42.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

43.

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

Phaedrus

44.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Plato

47.

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.

48.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

49.

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

50.

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