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.

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

Auden, W. H.

2.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

3.

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

Bible

4.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

5.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

6.

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

Hesiod

7.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

8.

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

Masters, Brian

9.

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

Simone Weil

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

16.

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

17.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

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

Ayn Rand

21.

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

22.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

Burroughs, William S.

24.

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

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

West, Mae

27.

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.

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

33.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

Claudius

36.

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

Edmund Burke

37.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

38.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

39.

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

Horton, Doug

40.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

41.

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

Mae West

42.

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

Homer

43.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

50.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther