Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Eliot, George

2.

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

Hood, Thomas

3.

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

Weber, C. J.

4.

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

Crowley, Aleister

5.

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

Homer

6.

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

7.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Proverb, American

9.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

16.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

22.

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

23.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

Masters, Brian

29.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

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

31.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

32.

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

Blaise Pascal

33.

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

Phaedrus

34.

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

35.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

36.

Evil spelled backward is live.

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

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

41.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

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

Bible

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.

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

Claudius

45.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

46.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

47.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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