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"
Quotations
Evil
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
