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“How does evil arise? Where does it come from? We think of malevolent men-— murderers, rapists, tyrants—and somehow believe they are different creatures from us. They are not. All evil men were once...”
“But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.”
“Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?”
“People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.”
“The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the...”
“I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a litt...”
“Ultimately, that’s what evil is . . . it’s something bad without an explanation. Which is why it’s terrifying. And as for mercy in the dark – well, what is salvation if not a light greater than all...”
“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”
“Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.”
“It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me”
“Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.”
“Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small ...”
“Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.”
“There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there's no Other and there's just me alone, then I'm not the person I thought...”
“I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to...”
“After his wife died, in great pain C. S. Lewis realized, “If I had really cared, as I thought I did, about the sorrows of the world, I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came.”3...”
“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actu...”
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
