Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Auden, W. H.

2.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

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

Voltaire

4.

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

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

8.

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

9.

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

Ayn Rand

10.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Bellow, Saul

12.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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.

20.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

23.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

24.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

25.

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

Mae West

26.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

27.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

28.

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

29.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

30.

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

31.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

32.

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

Masters, Brian

33.

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

Edmund Burke

34.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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.

36.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

37.

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

Mary Renault

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Buddha

42.

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

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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.

46.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

47.

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

48.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

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

Phaedrus

50.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary