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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Claudius

4.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

5.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

7.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

8.

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

Hoffer, Eric

9.

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.

10.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

11.

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

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.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

14.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

17.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

18.

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

19.

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

Homer

20.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

23.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

24.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

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

26.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

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

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

29.

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

Carlin, George

30.

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.

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

33.

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

34.

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

Bischer

35.

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

Plato

36.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

37.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.