When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
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"
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"
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 cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
-Jesus Christ
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
