The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
