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
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
