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"
Quotations
Evil
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
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
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
