Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bellow, Saul

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Weber, C. J.

2.

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

Phaedrus

3.

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

West, Mae

4.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

5.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

7.

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

8.

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

Eliot, George

9.

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

10.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

12.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

13.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Masters, Brian

18.

Evil spelled backward is live.

19.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

20.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

21.

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

Blaise Pascal

22.

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

Homer

23.

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

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

Plato

33.

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

Mary Renault

34.

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

35.

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

36.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

Lerner, Max

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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

42.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

43.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

45.

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

Hood, Thomas

46.

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

Horton, Doug

47.

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

48.

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

Buddha

49.

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

Claudius

50.

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

Simone Weil