I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
