I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
