I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Quotations
Evil
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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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 lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
