Motivational Quotes

Evil

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

2.

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

3.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

4.

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.

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

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

7.

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

Weber, C. J.

8.

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

9.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

12.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

13.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

16.

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

Carlin, George

17.

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

18.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

Socrates

21.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

22.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

23.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

25.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

26.

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

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

32.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

Lerner, Max

35.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

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.

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

39.

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

Cioran, E. M.

40.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

43.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

44.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

45.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

46.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

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

49.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

50.

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

Bible