It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
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
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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
"Interview with the Vampire"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
