I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
