God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
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
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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"
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 cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
