The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
