The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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
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 way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
