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
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"
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
