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

1.

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

Ayn Rand

2.

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

Aristotle

3.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.

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

5.

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

Edmund Burke

6.

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

7.

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

8.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

9.

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

Mary Renault

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

13.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Buddha

15.

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

Bischer

16.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

19.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

20.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Masters, Brian

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

Mae West

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

38.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

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

Hesiod

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

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