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
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
