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
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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 a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
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
