Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

2.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

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

Hood, Thomas

4.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

5.

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

6.

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

Buddha

7.

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

Edmund Burke

8.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

14.

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

Cioran, E. M.

15.

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

Claudius

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

Crowley, Aleister

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Carlin, George

20.

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

Ayn Rand

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

Evil spelled backward is live.

23.

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

Bellow, Saul

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

26.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

27.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

28.

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

Bible

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

30.

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

Blaise Pascal

31.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

32.

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

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

36.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

37.

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

38.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

39.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

41.

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

Mary Renault

42.

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

James, William

43.

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

Simone Weil

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.

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

King Edward the Third

46.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

47.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

48.

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

Plato

49.

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

50.

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