Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
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"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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
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
