It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Quotations
Evil
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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 "Dhammapada"
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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
