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
Quotations
Evil
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
