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"
Quotations
Evil
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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 healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
