Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Carlin, George

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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

Bible

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

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

Blaise Pascal

12.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

13.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

17.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

19.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

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

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

Plato

24.

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

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

Edmund Burke

27.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Simone Weil

32.

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

Cioran, E. M.

33.

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

Ayn Rand

34.

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

Hesiod

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.

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

Socrates

37.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

38.

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

Claudius

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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

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

43.

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

Bible

44.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

45.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

46.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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

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

Bischer

49.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

50.

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