Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
Quotations
Evil
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
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"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
