Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Simone Weil

3.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

4.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

5.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

6.

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

Hesiod

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

9.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Masters, Brian

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

16.

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

Burroughs, William S.

17.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

18.

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

Edmund Burke

19.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

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

22.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

23.

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

Phaedrus

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

26.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

27.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Eliot, George

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.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Hood, Thomas

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Bellow, Saul

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

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

Socrates

42.

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

43.

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

Weber, C. J.

44.

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

45.

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

Aristotle

46.

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

King Edward the Third

47.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

48.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

50.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther