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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
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
