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"
Quotations
Evil
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
