Motivational Quotes

Evil

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Burroughs, William S.

2.

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

3.

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

Ayn Rand

4.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

5.

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

6.

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

Aristotle

7.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

8.

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

9.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

10.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Weber, C. J.

14.

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.

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Homer

17.

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

Phaedrus

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Edmund Burke

23.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

24.

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

25.

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

Bellow, Saul

26.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

27.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

Proverb

29.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

30.

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

Claudius

31.

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

Simone Weil

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

34.

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

King Edward the Third

35.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

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

Masters, Brian

39.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

40.

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

41.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

42.

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

Bischer

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Horton, Doug

50.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato