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

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

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.

5.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

7.

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

8.

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

Edmund Burke

9.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Crowley, Aleister

12.

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.

13.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

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

Ayn Rand

16.

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

King Edward the Third

17.

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

Socrates

18.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

19.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

20.

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

21.

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

Hood, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

25.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

26.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

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

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

32.

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

Claudius

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

37.

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

Bellow, Saul

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Mary Renault

40.

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

Masters, Brian

41.

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

Lerner, Max

42.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

44.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

45.

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

James, William

46.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

47.

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

48.

Evil spelled backward is live.

49.

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

Bischer

50.

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