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

1.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

2.

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

Claudius

3.

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

4.

Evil spelled backward is live.

5.

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

Horton, Doug

6.

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

Buddha

7.

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

Cioran, E. M.

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

Mae West

10.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

Lerner, Max

12.

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

Phaedrus

13.

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

Crowley, Aleister

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

16.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

17.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

18.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

19.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

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

Edmund Burke

22.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

23.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

24.

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

Bischer

25.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Bellow, Saul

29.

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

Carlin, George

30.

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

Eliot, George

31.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

32.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

33.

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

Hesiod

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

40.

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

King Edward the Third

41.

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

42.

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

James, William

43.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

44.

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

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

48.

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