Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Bellow, Saul

2.

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

Carlin, George

3.

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

Horton, Doug

4.

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

5.

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

Auden, W. H.

6.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

7.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

8.

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

9.

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

Ayn Rand

10.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

Evil spelled backward is live.

15.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

19.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

20.

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

21.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

22.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

23.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

25.

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

King Edward the Third

26.

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

Cioran, E. M.

27.

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

Socrates

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Bischer

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

Hood, Thomas

36.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

38.

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

Weber, C. J.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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

Crowley, Aleister

43.

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

Blaise Pascal

44.

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

Mary Renault

45.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.