Quotes About Evil

We must do this. It has been prophesied.' You relieve yourself of choice. Relieve yourself of consequences. Torture me, harm me, kill me. Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalised.

The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late...We are too eager to build devils. Is it only a matter of time before we are at war again?

Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized

Watching you testify makes my blood boil. I'm not sure that I'm aware of any family in America that's more evil than yours.

There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind, which was so clear and buoyant that he asked himself why he wanted to do it at all. And he said to himself that he wanted to do it because he was evil, thoroughly evil. And he smiled as he said it and was content. He looked quite innocent, like any happy person.

Fue un monstruo desde el principio. Eligio la vida por pura obstinación y por pura maldad.

When you see true evil, it changes you forever. It wants to make sure laughter and joy die a violent death, but the best it can manage is to put them on life support. It's up to the rest of us to make sure they don't stay there." -John Murphy, Bartender at Bulfinche's Pub

Then the Maw did something really disgusting. It let loose with the evil mother of all farts. It was actually visible, a gray murky mist. I covered my mouth and nose with my sleeve, but my eyes were burning. I had been tear-gassed before. This was worse. While

they tortured him because there is nothing better than torture to make something evil turn good. Insert sarcastic tone here.

He is the Norse god of evil," I said. Paddy shrugged. "Technically, mischief. And people can change if we give them a chance.

For a bunch of torturers and just plain evil folk, the keepers of the damned were a whiny bunch.

There is no pure good, no pure evil, only purity.

I believed he would once again embrace the knowledge that there is no pure evil, nor pure good, only purity.

He didn't have a religious or pious relationship with the church; it was aesthetic. The thrill of the battle between good and evil attracted him, perhaps because it mirrored his interior conflict, and revealed a line that he might yet need to cross.' p.16

Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise-and these were Willy's exact words-why bother to go on living?

The myth of pure evil has many sources. One is what Steven Pinker calls "the moralization gap"—the tendency to diminish the severity of our own acts relative to the acts of others.

As Baumeister puts it, "If we as social scientists restrict our focus to actions that everyone including the perpetrator agrees are evil, we will have almost nothing to study." It is surprising to see how often the worst people in the world—rapists interviewed in prison, say—see themselves as the real victims. They are wrong to see themselves as innocents, but we are wrong as well to see them as different creatures from the rest of us.

The fifth chapter is about evil, looking skeptically at the view that lack of empathy makes people worse. The final chapter steps back to defend human rationality, arguing that we really do have the capacity to use reasoned deliberation to make it through the world. We live in an age of reason.

This might seem perverse. How can good lead to evil? One thing to keep in mind here is that we are interested in beliefs and motivations, not what's good in some objective sense. So the idea isn't that evil is good; rather, it's that evil is done by those who think they are doing good.

This is why good-versus-evil clashes are so much more satisfying than fictions where there is good without evil.

They find man a paradoxical being; one capable of descent into the darkest abysses of evil, and yet equally capable of ascent to the sublimest heights of nobility. They

The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.

People possessed of a lively imagination began to dream that they stood in all kinds of relations to the Evil One. There are cases in which imaginary witches surrendered themselves voluntarily to the Inquisition.

SET, OR SETH, whom the Greeks called Typhon, the nefarious demon of death and evil in Egyptian mythology, is characterised as "a strong god (a-pahuti), whose anger is to be feared.