When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
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
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"
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"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
