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
Quotations
Evil
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
