Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Carlin, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

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

Aristotle

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Plato

10.

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

Simone Weil

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Masters, Brian

13.

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

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

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

James, William

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

25.

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

Blaise Pascal

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

King Edward the Third

29.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

30.

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

31.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Phaedrus

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

39.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

42.

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

43.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

45.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Buddha

49.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

50.

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