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"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
