Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Carlin, George

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

Homer

15.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

16.

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

17.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

18.

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

Auden, W. H.

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Lerner, Max

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

29.

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

James, William

30.

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

31.

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

King Edward the Third

32.

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

Plato

33.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

35.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

36.

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.

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Simone Weil

39.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Burroughs, William S.

41.

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

Hesiod

42.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

43.

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

44.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

45.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

46.

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

Mary Renault

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