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"
Quotations
Evil
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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"
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
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
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
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
