Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
Quotations
Evil
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
-Epicurus
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
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"
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"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
