Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Haydon, Benjamin

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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

3.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

4.

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

Voltaire

5.

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

6.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Mary Renault

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Claudius

13.

Evil spelled backward is live.

14.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

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

Ayn Rand

16.

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

Weber, C. J.

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

20.

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

21.

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

Carlin, George

22.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

23.

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

24.

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

Edmund Burke

25.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

26.

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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

James, William

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

32.

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.

33.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

47.

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

Auden, W. H.

48.

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

Hesiod

49.

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