I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
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 ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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 a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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"
