Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

2.

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

3.

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

Hood, Thomas

4.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

5.

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

Masters, Brian

6.

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

Auden, W. H.

7.

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

Mae West

8.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Crowley, Aleister

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

King Edward the Third

24.

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

Cioran, E. M.

25.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

26.

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

27.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

29.

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

Phaedrus

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Ayn Rand

32.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

33.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

34.

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.

35.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

36.

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

Weber, C. J.

37.

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

38.

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

Bischer

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

James, William

42.

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

43.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

44.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

48.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

49.

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

Lerner, Max

50.

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