Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

2.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

3.

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

4.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

5.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

6.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

7.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

8.

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

Cioran, E. M.

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Claudius

17.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

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

Hoffer, Eric

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

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

Bible

23.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

24.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

26.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

27.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

28.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

29.

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

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

32.

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

Burroughs, William S.

33.

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

Carlin, George

34.

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

35.

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

Lerner, Max

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

41.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

42.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

44.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

45.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

49.

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

Horton, Doug

50.

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