Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
We can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
-Jean Paul Sartre
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
