I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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 confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
