Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Evil
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"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
