I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Quotations
Evil
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
