Motivational Quotes

Evil

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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

Aristotle

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

14.

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

Crowley, Aleister

15.

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

Masters, Brian

16.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Claudius

19.

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

Blaise Pascal

20.

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

Phaedrus

21.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Cioran, E. M.

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

27.

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

28.

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

Bischer

29.

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

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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

31.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

34.

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

Lerner, Max

35.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Bellow, Saul

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Simone Weil

42.

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

Homer

43.

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

44.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

45.

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

Ayn Rand

46.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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