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
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
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
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 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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
