Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

King Edward the Third

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Voltaire

5.

Evil spelled backward is live.

6.

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

Lerner, Max

7.

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

Blaise Pascal

8.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

10.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Bellow, Saul

15.

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

16.

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

17.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

18.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

19.

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

Simone Weil

20.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

23.

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

James, William

24.

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

Buddha

25.

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

26.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

27.

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

28.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Bible

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

34.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

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

Bischer

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

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

Ayn Rand

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

41.

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

Burroughs, William S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

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

Homer

47.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

48.

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

Mae West

49.

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

50.

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

Horton, Doug