When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
We can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
-Jean Paul Sartre
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
