Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Weber, C. J.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Eliot, George

10.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

11.

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

12.

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

Carlin, George

13.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

14.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Edmund Burke

18.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Phaedrus

20.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

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

Claudius

24.

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

Bellow, Saul

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Mary Renault

28.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Lerner, Max

32.

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

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

35.

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

Weber, C. J.

36.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

37.

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

Simone Weil

38.

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

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

40.

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

Crowley, Aleister

41.

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

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

45.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

46.

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

47.

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

Burroughs, William S.

48.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

49.

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

Hood, Thomas

50.

Of two evils, choose neither.