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

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Masters, Brian

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

10.

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

11.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

12.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

13.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

14.

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

15.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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.

19.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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 must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

24.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

Weber, C. J.

30.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

31.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

35.

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

Lerner, Max

36.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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.

38.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

39.

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

Ayn Rand

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

42.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Edmund Burke

46.

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

Mary Renault

47.

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

Carlin, George

48.

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