Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

West, Mae

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Simone Weil

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Carlin, George

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Mary Renault

15.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

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

24.

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

Weber, C. J.

25.

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

Bischer

26.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

27.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

30.

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

Socrates

31.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

35.

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

Masters, Brian

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Blaise Pascal

39.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

45.

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

46.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

47.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

48.

Evil spelled backward is live.

49.

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

50.

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

Haydon, Benjamin