The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Evil
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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
