It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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 never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
