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"
Quotations
Evil
-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
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 healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
