God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
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"
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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
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"
