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  1. Paul La Farge _ The Night Ocean

    As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately, whether evil might exist. If it does, I've been thinking, it might be like what Freud called the navel of the dream, the place where all the lines of meaning the analyst has so carefully traced through the patient's life vanish into the unknown. But where the navel of the dream is essentially harmless phenomenon, a point where the dream's meaning is sufficiently understood, and further interpretation would be pointless, evil is a mystery with power. It reaches up into the world and makes everything mysterious.
    book-quoteevilfreudian

  2. Anonymous _ The Dhammapada

    If there is no wound in your hand You can carry poison in your hand.Poison does not attack one who is unwounded. There is no evil for one who does not do evil.
    book-quoteevilpoisonv-124

  3. Anonymous _ Holy Bible: New International

    For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Eph. 6:12 {NIV}
    book-quoteevilbible

  4. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
    book-quoteevil

  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Demons

    There are people on whom even clean linen looks indecent.
    book-quoteevilpeoplemalice

  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be.
    book-quoteloveevilgod

  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    All we Karamazovs are such insects. And angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a tempest in your blood. Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest - worse than a tempest! Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets before us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am not an educated nor cultured man, Alyosha, but I've thought a lot about this. It's terrible what mysteries there are! Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. Beauty! I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What's still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna, and his heart may be on fire with that ideal, genuinely on fire, just as in his days of youth and innocence. Yes, man is broad, too broad. I'd have him narrower. The devil only knows what to make of it! What to the mind is shameful is beauty and nothing else to the heart. Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
    book-quoteevilgod

  8. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.
    book-quoteevilfearvile

  9. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
    book-quoteevilfearwickedness

  10. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
    book-quoteevilcowardice

  11. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
    book-quoteevilpovertyactivism

  12. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.
    book-quotetruthevilbelief
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