Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

West, Mae

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

Mary Renault

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

10.

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

Masters, Brian

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

16.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

17.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

18.

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.

19.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

35.

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

James, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

39.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

40.

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

Bischer

41.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

43.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

Crowley, Aleister

47.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

48.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

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