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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
