Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

2.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

Buddha

5.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

6.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Claudius

10.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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

13.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

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

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

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

17.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

23.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

26.

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

Edmund Burke

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

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

Homer

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Crowley, Aleister

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Mary Renault

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

43.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

44.

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