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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

2.

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

3.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

4.

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

Mae West

5.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

6.

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

Weber, C. J.

7.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

8.

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

Bible

9.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

10.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

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

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

20.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Evil spelled backward is live.

22.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

23.

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

James, William

24.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Crowley, Aleister

26.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lerner, Max

30.

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

Ayn Rand

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Masters, Brian

35.

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

Burroughs, William S.

36.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Socrates

40.

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

41.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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

43.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

44.

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

Mary Renault

45.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

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

49.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

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

Simone Weil