Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
