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"
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
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
