It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
