Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Aristotle

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

Mary Renault

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

16.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

17.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

19.

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

Homer

20.

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

21.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

22.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

26.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Edmund Burke

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

35.

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

King Edward the Third

36.

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

Phaedrus

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

Bellow, Saul

42.

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

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

45.

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

Claudius

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.