When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Evil
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-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"
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
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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"
