The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Quotations
Evil
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
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"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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 ? 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"
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
