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"
Quotations
Evil
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
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"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
