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
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"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
