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
Quotations
Evil
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
