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
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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 healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
