Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man? The shadow knows. . .
We have met the enemy and it is us.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Sin lies only in hurting people unnecessarily.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness.
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so
afraid he will look just like everyone else.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy's most
intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. I'm not quarreling with your
choice of issues, only with your intellectually diminished approach. If evil means to be self-motivated,
to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every
thinker, every original mind is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than
mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see us is to steal fire from the
Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race.
I was bad, I had done bad things, I had hurt people, and the worst of it was, I didn't want
to stop.
Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?
Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
My friend, my friend, I was born doing reference work in sin, and born confessing it.
Forgive us, Father, for we know not.
It is evil who dines on the soul.
None of them has the sense of evil that I have.
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth, sometimes. . .
I accept you, demon. I will not cover your mouth.
. . . and if you commit one sin you might as well commit a few more because you get the same
sentence in hell. One sin, eternity. A dozen sins, eternity.
