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
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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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"
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
