Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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

Buddha

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

Claudius

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

10.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Ayn Rand

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

20.

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

Mary Renault

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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.

23.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

29.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

30.

Evil spelled backward is live.

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

33.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

34.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

35.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

36.

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

37.

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

Crowley, Aleister

38.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

39.

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

King Edward the Third

40.

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

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

West, Mae

42.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

46.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

47.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

48.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle