I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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"
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
