The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
