Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Ayn Rand

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

10.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

13.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

16.

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

17.

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

Hood, Thomas

18.

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.

19.

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

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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

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

22.

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

Homer

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Arendt, Hannah

24.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Mary Renault

32.

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

33.

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

Blaise Pascal

34.

Evil spelled backward is live.

35.

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

36.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

37.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, American

39.

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

Carlin, George

40.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

41.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

46.

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

King Edward the Third

47.

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

48.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

49.

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

50.

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

Bible