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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
