Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

- Gloria Steinem

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

2.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

3.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

4.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Proverb

7.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

8.

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

Mae West

9.

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.

10.

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

Hood, Thomas

11.

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

Buddha

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

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

Bellow, Saul

17.

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

18.

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

Ayn Rand

19.

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

Crowley, Aleister

20.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

21.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

23.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

29.

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

Homer

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

33.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

36.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Evil spelled backward is live.

39.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

40.

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

Blaise Pascal

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

45.

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

Simone Weil

46.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

47.

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

48.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

49.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

50.

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