#evil

I do like to explore evil characters in my books. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#characters #evil #explore #i #i do

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

#evil #good #good people #half #let us

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#handmaiden #leisure

Imaginary evils are incurable. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#imaginary #incurable

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#abstract #concrete #evil #humans #make

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#goodness #make #only #readable #sense

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#evil #heart #human #human heart #may

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. ↗

— George III

#end #evil #feature #in the end #inhabitants