#evil

A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#evil

Human reason can excuse any evil. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#evil #humanity #reasoning #evil

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . . ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#evil #fight #evil

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

— Tom Stoppard

#evil #evil

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#strategy #evil

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#understanding #evil

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#stupidity #evil

I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?" Maybe... if it's an evil guinea pig. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#evil

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#good-and-evil #humanity #native-americans #self-determination #fighting

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#evil #men #art