Motivational Quotes

Evil

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

2.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

3.

Evil spelled backward is live.

4.

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

5.

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

Socrates

6.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

7.

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

Hood, Thomas

8.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

9.

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

Plato

10.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

11.

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

Claudius

12.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

14.

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

15.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

16.

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

Carlin, George

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

19.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

20.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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

Ayn Rand

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

Simone Weil

28.

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

29.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

30.

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

31.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

32.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

33.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Homer

36.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

37.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

39.

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

40.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

41.

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

Hesiod

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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