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"
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
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 cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
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"
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"
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
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"
