God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Evil
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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
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"
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 cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
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"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
