#evil

Beauty and the devil are the same thing. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#devil #same #thing

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ↗

— Yann Martel

#art #background #beyond #bounds #certainly

Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#fun #humor #megalomania #world-domination #humor

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. ↗

— James Meade

#evils #great #mass #threat #two

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#become #bit #broadway #broadway musicals #get

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#because #evil #frightening #i #i think

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. ↗

— John Waters

#george-w-bush #johnny-mathis #osama-bin-laden #imagination

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ↗

— Hannah More

#certain #children #evil #idleness #ill

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#goodness #imagination

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. ↗

— Glen Cook

#right-and-wrong #righteousness #dreams