I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
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"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
