The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
