Motivational Quotes

Evil

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Voltaire

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

James, William

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Bischer

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

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

King Edward the Third

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

Mary Renault

16.

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

Masters, Brian

17.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

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.

19.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

22.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

23.

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

24.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

25.

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

Crowley, Aleister

26.

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

Ayn Rand

27.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

28.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

29.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

32.

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

33.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

35.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

Mae West

40.

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

41.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, American

45.

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

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

47.

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

Claudius

48.

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

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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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