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“I think, actually I know that it's overwhelmingly possible for men to conduct such atrocities as to kill a man in cold blood, to burn towns and to parade with the the dead on the tips of their swor...”
“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.”
“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate mans lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in w...”
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happen...”
“But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people]”
“As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable...”
“He suffered from an unlucky facultycommon to many men, especially Russiansthe faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil ...”
“The world has many places that can make us uncomfortable. Calling them evil, or any other bad name, doesnt make them go away.”
“It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and act the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway. Evil's resourceful that way.”
“Your whole life, you are told what is right and what is wrong. What you should do and what you should not do. What makes a good citizen and what makes a traitorous one. What happens, then, when you...”
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cut...”
“Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle ...”
“There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.”
“Fear is the original sin, suddenly said a still, small voice away backbackback of Valancys consciousness. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of some...”
“Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.”
“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.”
“Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?”
“We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. I...”
“...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.”
“Theres real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.”
