Quotations
Evil
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
- Dhammapada
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
- Ayn Rand
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
- Leo Tolstoy
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
- Jonathan Swift
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
- Anne Rice
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