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
Quotations
Evil
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
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"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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 healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
