God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
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"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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 never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
