Evil Quotes - Page 10

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

We ate our fill, but there was more left when we was done. 'It’ll be in the icebox if y’all want some more later on,' she told us. There weren’t no way I would have gone back and eat more. I knowed they was being extra nice to us right then, but if we didn’t act right, they would put us out. That’s how folks do.

The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head. They were done, skilfully, coldly, by educated men, doctors, lawyers, by men with a tradition of civilization behind them, to beings of their own kind....

Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn't have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could be.

For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart.

Evil comes in various forms, the one it comes most is the crowd of people.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil and a preponderance of good, both crying that somehow it was meant to be. Then nothing, only the cold apathy of deepest space.

Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none."
From The Tenth, chapter 28.

The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good; succeed and persist

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.