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"
Quotations
Evil
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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"
