I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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 "Dhammapada"
