The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
