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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

2.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

3.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

5.

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

6.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

9.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

Bischer

11.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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

Ayn Rand

14.

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

Homer

15.

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

16.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

17.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

18.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

19.

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

Simone Weil

20.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

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

Claudius

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

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

24.

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hesiod

30.

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

31.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

32.

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

33.

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

Weber, C. J.

34.

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

James, William

35.

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

36.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

37.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

38.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

39.

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

Bellow, Saul

40.

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

41.

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

King Edward the Third

42.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

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