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"
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
-Breet Easton Ellis
"American Psycho"
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
-Leo Tolstoy
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
