The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Evil
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
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
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"
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
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
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
