It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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 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"
