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"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
