When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
We can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
