I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Quotations
Evil
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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
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"
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
