Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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

Bischer

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

King Edward the Third

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Bellow, Saul

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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.

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

10.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

12.

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

Claudius

13.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

14.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

15.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Simone Weil

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

20.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

21.

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

Masters, Brian

22.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Cioran, E. M.

25.

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

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

28.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

29.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

32.

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

33.

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

Hesiod

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

38.

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

Mae West

39.

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

Burroughs, William S.

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

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

42.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

43.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.

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

45.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

46.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

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

Hood, Thomas

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