When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
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 proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
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"
