Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Ayn Rand

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

13.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

14.

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

Burroughs, William S.

15.

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

Buddha

16.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

17.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

25.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

26.

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

Cioran, E. M.

27.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Claudius

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

35.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

36.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

Plato

39.

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

Crowley, Aleister

40.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

44.

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

45.

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

Voltaire

46.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

47.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

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