Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Ayn Rand

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

Bischer

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

King Edward the Third

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

Homer

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

15.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.

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

Burroughs, William S.

17.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

18.

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

Hood, Thomas

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

22.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Carlin, George

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Claudius

34.

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

35.

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

Hesiod

36.

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

Eliot, George

37.

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

Auden, W. H.

38.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

39.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

40.

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

Weber, C. J.

41.

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

West, Mae

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

James, William

50.

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

Aristotle