The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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"
