It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
We can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
We float in the effulgence of one, scintillating, unseen cosmic energy called the ‘Devi’. She is the life force energy. She wards off all evil.
-Bhanumathi Narasimhan "Bhanumathi Narasimhan"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-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
