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
Quotations
Evil
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
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
