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
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
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"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
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
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
