It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
-Epicurus
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
