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God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis De Bernieres

Every evil starts with 15 volts. — Philip G. Zimbardo

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise. — Anne Rice

Love can literally transform a human being. It can make us do either heroic or evil deeds. It is the best inspiration ever. — Abhijit Naskar

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin - sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race. — Billy Graham

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. — Rudolf Steiner

You're not evil Sophie," Agatha whispered, touching her decayed cheek. "You're human."
Sophie smiled weakly. "Only if I have you. — Soman Chainani

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. — Adam Smith

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. — Agatha Christie

You're either good, or you're clever. — Mackenzi Lee

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind. — Abhijit Naskar

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. — Benjamin Haydon

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons — Hannah Arendt

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. — Anthony De Mello

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. — Iris Chang

Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world. — Abhijit Naskar

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker

I have experienced real horror. I have known true evil. Its name is human nature. — James Newman

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. — John Brunner

How do evil people find the strength to do good? — Keith Hollihan

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth. — Arthur Koestler

Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good? — Edward O. Wilson

Violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. — Louis L'Amour

The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men — Basil Johnston

She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form. — Kami Garcia

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes. — Plato

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls? — M.F. Moonzajer

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. — William Wordsworth

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. — Theodore Parker

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. — Barrows Dunham

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death? — Epictetus

Shiver me clitoris, that's an evil vessel,' Severance says. — Charlie Human

Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good — Jose Saramago

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table, — Louise Penny

The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement. — Robert A. Heinlein

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Human reason can excuse any evil. — Veronica Roth

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human. — David Benioff

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. — Wladyslaw Szpilman

The explanation was plain; this desolation out here called forth all that was evil in human nature. — O.E. Rolvaag

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. — Elizabeth Kostova

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. — Eric Hoffer

Suggesting evil is human doesn't mean we can always understand it. — Kanan Makiya

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being. — Sonia Sotomayor

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered. — Wojciech Kurtyka

Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart. — Joseph D'Lacey

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. — Zainab Salbi

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. — Arthur Bryant

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it! — Jane Austen

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good? — Robert McNamara

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. — Erich Fromm

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition. — Philip Zimbardo

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle. — Toba Beta

Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances. — F.W. Boreham

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason. — Barack Obama

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. — Nikolas Schreck

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? — G.K. Chesterton

Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him? — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon

The human is evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. — John Locke

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. — Joyce Carol Oates

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. — Richard John Neuhaus

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism. — Alan Keyes

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. — Xun Zi

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. — Gustave De Molinari

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu

This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being. — Andrei Makine

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules De Goncourt

Without the voice, hands, and feet of a human being, an evil spirit is limited in what it can accomplish. — Perry Stone

Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means — Dew Platt

Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, — Wilkie Collins

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN. — Agatha Christie

We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts. — Nick Sagan

Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong. — Richard Jefferies

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. — Thomas Jefferson

If you want to ask how evil begins, just look to basic human nature. What's good gets bent, and bad is the inevitable result. — Anonymous

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way. — Anne Enright

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. — Veronica Roth

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? — George Orwell

Mourning the old glad days before they knew
What evil things the heart of man could dream, and dreaming do. — Oscar Wilde

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". — Stefan Molyneux

The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected. — Paul K. Chappell

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues. — Greg Iles

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. — Jawaharlal Nehru

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn