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"
Quotations
Evil
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-Hannah Arendt
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
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"
