Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Evil
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
We can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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
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"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
