#evil

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#devilish #extract #fascination #horror #instinct

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian! ↗

— Jerry Lee Lewis

#devil #go #god #got #heaven

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. ↗

— Lucretius

#evil #persuading #potent #religion

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#black #come #evil #i #interesting

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#certainly #devil #father #i #internet

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#devil #failure #god #long #man

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#argue #awakens #certain #contest #creation

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. ↗

— Horace Mann

#bound #call #disguises #evil #good

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it. ↗

— Steve Martin

#books #bought #discipline #doing #enjoyed

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. ↗

— Walter Martin

#away #devil #false #lead #people