It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
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
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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 way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
