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"
Quotations
Evil
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
