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"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
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
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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 best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
