I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
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"
