#evil

Evil will win if good people do nothing. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#real-talk #good-and-evil

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #good-and-evil

... Faustus ... dared to confirm he had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner — he was a conscious follower of the Prince of Darkness. The fact he could publicly project an Antichrist image with pride, having no fear of reprisal, and his seeming diabolical art of escaping all punishment when others who were considered heretics had burned at the stake for less, would certainly signal that an unnatural individual walked in their midst. It is true in many respects he assumed the role of the charlatan, yet how apropos, considering his willingness to follow his ‘brother-in-law’ known as the Father of Lies and deception. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#devil #evil #evil-men #evil-people #faust

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#always #because #evil #get #going

...Thing was' he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, 'they bit of a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably think they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway' Neville laughed, 'Dawlish is still in St Mungo's and Gran is on the run. She sent me a letter,' he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, 'telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parents' son, and to keep it up ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. ↗

— Andrzej Sapkowski

#life

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#evil #fiction #grace #on-fiction #storytelling

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ↗

— Jean Genet

#handsome #jean-genet #thief #men

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers) ↗

— F. Sionil José

#good #humans #men

Evil people are those who knew they're evil, but refused to do anything about it. ↗

— Jawe Querimit

#wicked-people #wickedness #men