I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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 confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
