I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Quotations
Evil
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
