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“If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”
“Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.”
“As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.”
“There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.”
“The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image....”
“Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear. ~Madame Zelda to Roller Deb”
“That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you becomec...”
“In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden-the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain”
“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”
“In this universe, even what is called evil, when it is rightly ordered and kept in its place, commends the good more eminently, since good things yield greater pleasure and praise when compared to ...”
“Every man is an evil until he falls in love.”
“& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.”
“Evil is the starry sky of the Good.”
“Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.”
“nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something t...”
“But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is unimaginable th...”
“Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.”
“Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.”
“We sat on the dusty floor like that for what felt like hours, our legs intertwined in the kneeling position. Like the demon and the angel reaching for one another on Jets arm, I felt half of everyt...”
“Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.”
