I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
