It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
