God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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.
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"