Motivational Quotes

Evil

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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.

2.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

3.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

4.

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

Homer

5.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

6.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

7.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

8.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

9.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

10.

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

11.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

14.

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

Lerner, Max

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

19.

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

20.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

21.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

24.

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

Burroughs, William S.

25.

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

26.

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

Bischer

27.

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

Bible

28.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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.

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

Masters, Brian

31.

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

32.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

33.

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

Buddha

34.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

35.

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

King Edward the Third

36.

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

Edmund Burke

37.

Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

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

Crowley, Aleister

39.

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

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

41.

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

Bellow, Saul

42.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

43.

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

Ayn Rand

44.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

45.

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

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

48.

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

Horton, Doug

49.

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

50.

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

Socrates