It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
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 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"
