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"
Quotations
Evil
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
