I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
