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"
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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 healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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
We float in the effulgence of one, scintillating, unseen cosmic energy called the ‘Devi’. She is the life force energy. She wards off all evil.
-Bhanumathi Narasimhan "Bhanumathi Narasimhan"
