The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-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
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"
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
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
