It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
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 cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
