All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Evil
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
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"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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
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 lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
