When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
