All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Evil
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
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
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
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
