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"
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"
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
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
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
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
