Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Ayn Rand

3.

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

4.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

5.

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

6.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

Burroughs, William S.

13.

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

14.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

16.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

17.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

18.

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

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Hood, Thomas

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Evil spelled backward is live.

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

33.

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

Phaedrus

34.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

35.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

36.

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

Crowley, Aleister

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, American

39.

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

Mary Renault

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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