It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
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 lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
