I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Quotations
Evil
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
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"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
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 proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
