I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Quotations
Evil
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
We float in the effulgence of one, scintillating, unseen cosmic energy called the ‘Devi’. She is the life force energy. She wards off all evil.
-Bhanumathi Narasimhan "Bhanumathi Narasimhan"
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
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"
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
