I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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"
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
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
