It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
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"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
