It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Evil
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
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"
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
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"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
