It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
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"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
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"
