Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Voltaire

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Hesiod

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

Mary Renault

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

10.

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

Mae West

11.

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

Cioran, E. M.

12.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

Hood, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Bischer

23.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

27.

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

Bellow, Saul

28.

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

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

30.

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

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Plato

33.

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

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

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

Socrates

37.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

38.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

43.

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

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

45.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

46.

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.

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Evil spelled backward is live.