It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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"
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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
