The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Quotations
Evil
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
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"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
