All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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"
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
