The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Quotations
Evil
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
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
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
