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"
Quotations
Evil
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
