Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil brings men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Socrates

2.

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

Blaise Pascal

3.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

4.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

5.

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

Edmund Burke

6.

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

7.

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

Mary Renault

8.

Evil spelled backward is live.

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

11.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

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

Crowley, Aleister

13.

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.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

17.

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

Ayn Rand

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

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

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

23.

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

Weber, C. J.

24.

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

25.

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

Hood, Thomas

26.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

27.

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.

28.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

29.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

32.

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

33.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

38.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

41.

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

Simone Weil

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

Bible

47.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

48.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

49.

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