Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

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Best Quotes about Evil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

10.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

11.

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

12.

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

Masters, Brian

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

15.

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

Weber, C. J.

16.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

17.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

19.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

20.

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

Carlin, George

21.

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

Ayn Rand

22.

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

23.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Horton, Doug

27.

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

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

30.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

36.

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

37.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

39.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

40.

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

King Edward the Third

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Simone Weil

45.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

46.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Auden, W. H.

49.

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

50.

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