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 proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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"
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 ? 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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
