God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
