Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil draws men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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.

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

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

Proverb

4.

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

Proverb, American

5.

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

King Edward the Third

6.

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

7.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

8.

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

9.

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.

Evil spelled backward is live.

11.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

12.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

13.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

14.

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

Simone Weil

15.

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

Masters, Brian

16.

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

Hood, Thomas

17.

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

Ayn Rand

18.

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

19.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

23.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

25.

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

Claudius

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

28.

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

Horton, Doug

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

West, Mae

38.

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