There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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"
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"
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
