It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Quotations
Evil
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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
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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
