God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 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"
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
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
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
