It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
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
