There’s no governmental system that can correct evil as long as people remain as they are now.
—Leo Tolstoy
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens
In order to live by its own law, a bird must fly, a snake must crawl, a fish must swim, and a man must love. Therefore, if instead of loving people a man does evil to them, he behaves as strangely as a bird that tries to swim or a fish that tries to fly.
—Leo Tolstoy
In order not to commit evil acts, you must learn to restrain yourself from unkind conversation and most of all from unkind thoughts.
—Leo Tolstoy
We call suffering evil, but nothing unites people through love more than suffering.
—Leo Tolstoy
There are a lot of evil people around, and that’s because they have no friends. Communication with people – with mom, grandmother, a dog – is the best thing that happens to you in this life. Not counting shoes and bags, of course.
—Taras Shevchenko
The world is not without good people and not without evil ones. Otherwise, how would we know which ones are good.
—Taras Shevchenko
I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
—John Locke
It’s unnecessary to raise a hurricane to destroy us. Were he to withdraw his arm for a moment some unthought evil would overwhelm.
—John Newton
Sin is the greatest evil. Paul’s greatest sorrow was for sin (Rom. 7:24). Paul never cried ‘O wretched man that I am’ because he had suffered so much affiction, but only for his sin!
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Evil people do not look into children’s eyes for fear of being poisoned by their purity.
—Taras Shevchenko
Amazing! A person resents the evil that comes from outside, from others, something that he cannot affect, but does not fight his own personal evil that is in his power to control.
—Taras Shevchenko
When evil is committed, a person is afraid that people will know about it, he can still find a way to good. When, having done good, a person tries to make people know about it, he gives rise to evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
A man who does evil is an enemy to himself: after all, he himself will taste the fruits of his evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
Evil people have no songs.
—Taras Shevchenko
Very smart people are not evil. Evilness a priori implies limitation and stupidity.
—Taras Shevchenko
A bad man does and will continue to do evil no matter what.
—Taras Shevchenko
Maybe good and evil have the same face. It all depends on when we encounter them on our path.
—Taras Shevchenko
What could be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have a good heart? He will use all his knowledge for evil.
—Taras Shevchenko