It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"