The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Evil
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
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"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
