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
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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
