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
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
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
