It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
