Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bellow, Saul

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Bischer

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

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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

10.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Buddha

12.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

13.

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

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

18.

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

Bible

19.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

27.

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.

28.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

29.

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

Crowley, Aleister

30.

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

31.

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

Burroughs, William S.

32.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

34.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

35.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

38.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

39.

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

Bible

40.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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

Bellow, Saul

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Cioran, E. M.

47.

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

48.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

49.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

50.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary