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
Quotations
Evil
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"
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 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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
