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
Quotations
Evil
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
