I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
