Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Buddha

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

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

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

Mae West

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

Plato

15.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

16.

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

Masters, Brian

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Ayn Rand

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Carlin, George

27.

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

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

Evil spelled backward is live.

30.

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

31.

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

James, William

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

35.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

38.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

39.

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

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

45.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

46.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

48.

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

Auden, W. H.

49.

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

50.

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