Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Homer

4.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

5.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

8.

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

9.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

10.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

13.

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

Ayn Rand

14.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

15.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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

Blaise Pascal

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

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

24.

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

Masters, Brian

25.

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

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Phaedrus

27.

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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

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

Mae West

32.

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

Weber, C. J.

33.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

34.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

Simone Weil

37.

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

Claudius

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

Evil spelled backward is live.

40.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

41.

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

42.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

44.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

45.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Aurelius, Marcus