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.

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

Burroughs, William S.

2.

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

Crowley, Aleister

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Hesiod

9.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

15.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

16.

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

Cioran, E. M.

17.

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

King Edward the Third

18.

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

19.

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

Edmund Burke

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

22.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

23.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

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

Carlin, George

26.

Evil spelled backward is live.

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

29.

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

30.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

31.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

32.

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.

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

35.

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

Masters, Brian

36.

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