It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
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"
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
