The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Quotations
Evil
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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"
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"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
