Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
Quotations
Evil
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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
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"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
