The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Evil
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
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
