Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Masters, Brian

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

Carlin, George

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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

West, Mae

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

Plato

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

Blaise Pascal

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.

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

Bellow, Saul

10.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

15.

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

16.

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

Masters, Brian

17.

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

18.

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

King Edward the Third

19.

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

20.

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

Claudius

21.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

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

Crowley, Aleister

25.

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

26.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Lerner, Max

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

32.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

33.

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

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

36.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

37.

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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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

39.

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

40.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

42.

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

43.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Haydon, Benjamin

48.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle