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
Quotations
Evil
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
