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
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
