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
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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
