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"
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.
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift