It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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 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
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
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
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
