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"
Quotations
Evil
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"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
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
