I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
We float in the effulgence of one, scintillating, unseen cosmic energy called the ‘Devi’. She is the life force energy. She wards off all evil.
-Bhanumathi Narasimhan "Bhanumathi Narasimhan"
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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"
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
