Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Carlin, George

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

Homer

5.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

6.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

11.

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

Weber, C. J.

12.

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.

13.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

14.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

15.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

16.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

Buddha

23.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

King Edward the Third

27.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

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

Bischer

32.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Bellow, Saul

36.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

37.

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

Plato

38.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

39.

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

Lerner, Max

40.

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

41.

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

Crowley, Aleister

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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.

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

46.

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

Blaise Pascal

47.

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

Claudius

48.

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

Hesiod

49.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

50.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma