God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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
