Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

2.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

3.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

4.

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

Hood, Thomas

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

13.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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.

15.

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

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

17.

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

Edmund Burke

18.

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

Bischer

19.

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

Crowley, Aleister

20.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

21.

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

Plato

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

24.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

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

King Edward the Third

27.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

28.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

Simone Weil

30.

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

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Masters, Brian

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Mae West

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

37.

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

Blaise Pascal

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

42.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

43.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

47.

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

Mary Renault

48.

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

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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

Bible