I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
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"
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
