The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
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"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
