I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
We can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
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 healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
