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"
Quotations
Evil
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
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 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"
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
