I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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 ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
