Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

3.

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

Buddha

4.

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

Auden, W. H.

5.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.

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

Crowley, Aleister

7.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

8.

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

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Socrates

11.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

12.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

13.

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

14.

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

Bischer

15.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

18.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

19.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

20.

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

21.

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

James, William

22.

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

Mae West

23.

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

Hesiod

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

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

King Edward the Third

26.

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

Eliot, George

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 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

29.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

Proverb, American

31.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

32.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

35.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

36.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

37.

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

Plato

38.

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