It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
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
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
