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
Quotations
Evil
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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
