I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
