The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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 never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
We float in the effulgence of one, scintillating, unseen cosmic energy called the ‘Devi’. She is the life force energy. She wards off all evil.
-Bhanumathi Narasimhan "Bhanumathi Narasimhan"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
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"
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"
