The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Quotations
Evil
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 lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
We float in the effulgence of one, scintillating, unseen cosmic energy called the ‘Devi’. She is the life force energy. She wards off all evil.
-Bhanumathi Narasimhan "Bhanumathi Narasimhan"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
