Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Cioran, E. M.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hesiod

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

10.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

12.

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

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Crowley, Aleister

15.

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

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Masters, Brian

19.

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

Claudius

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

24.

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

Burroughs, William S.

25.

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

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Mary Renault

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

31.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

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

Hesiod

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.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

43.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

44.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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.

46.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

47.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

48.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb