God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
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"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
