I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
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"
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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 proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
