Quotations
Evil

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

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
- Dhammapada

I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
- Terry Pratchett

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
- Proverbs

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo

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

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