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
Quotations
Evil
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
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"
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"
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-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
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
