It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
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"
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
