When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
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 confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
