God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
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"
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 lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
