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.

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

Bible

2.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

3.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

4.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

5.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

6.

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

Weber, C. J.

7.

Evil spelled backward is live.

8.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

9.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

10.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

11.

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

Plato

12.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

13.

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

Blaise Pascal

14.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

17.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

18.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

James, William

21.

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

Simone Weil

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

27.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

28.

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

King Edward the Third

29.

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.

30.

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

Bischer

31.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

33.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

34.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Hood, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

41.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

42.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

43.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

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

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

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

Aristotle

50.

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

Baudelaire, Charles