Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

2.

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

Simone Weil

3.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Hoffer, Eric

7.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

8.

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

Mary Renault

9.

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

Socrates

10.

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

Blaise Pascal

11.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Claudius

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

18.

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

Bellow, Saul

19.

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

20.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

21.

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

Edmund Burke

22.

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

Ayn Rand

23.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

27.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

28.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

31.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

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

36.

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

James, William

37.

Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

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

Bible

39.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

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

46.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

47.

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

48.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

49.

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

Aristotle

50.

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

Maistre, Joseph De