Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

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Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Weber, C. J.

2.

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

3.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

4.

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

Aristotle

5.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Bible

9.

Evil spelled backward is live.

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Phaedrus

13.

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

Lerner, Max

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

Crowley, Aleister

16.

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

Masters, Brian

17.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

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

29.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

30.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

31.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

32.

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

33.

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

Cioran, E. M.

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

36.

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

Mary Renault

37.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

Hood, Thomas

42.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

43.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

46.

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

Simone Weil

47.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian