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“Horror is a situation, not a character, no matter how evil one may be.”

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“Grant Allen once said that an Englishman's idea of God was another Englishman twelve feet high, and I suppose that is more or less everybody's idea of God- with the necessary geographical adjustment. Zenith Brown has an idea about God that pleases me. 'God,' says Mrs. Brown, 'is obviously a friendly enough Old Gentleman most of the time, Who wishes us well and tries to see to it that we are reasonably happy. It is equally obvious the He has an idiot brother who takes over the reins whenever God Himself goes fishing. It is when the idiot brother is in charge of things that the world goes wrong and we have wars, famines, and pestilences on earth.”

War God Religion Evil

Book:Born in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence

Source: Born in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence

“The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over.”

War Evil Create End Save Battles

Book:The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency

Source: The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency

“We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.”

Evil Politics Realism Enemies Wars Against Often

Book:The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency

Source: The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency

“But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out.”

Evil Good Merlin

Book:The Last Ever After

Source: The Last Ever After

“I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. College transported me to a new town, where I tried, one more time, to reinvent myself. Becoming someone new, I could correct the errors of my past. At first I was optimistic: I could pull it off. But in the end, no matter where I went, I could never change. Over and over I made the same mistake, hurt other people, and hurt myself in the bargain. Just after I turned twenty, this thought hit me: Maybe I've lost the chance to ever be a decent human being. The mistakes I'd committed—maybe they were part of my very makeup, an inescapable part of my being. I'd hit rock bottom, and I knew it.”

Evil Novel Psychology Japan Introspection Good Intentions Modernism Existential Crisis

Book:South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things". And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family.”

Humanity Evil Morality Good

Book:I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.”

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Book:The Book of Dahlia

Source: The Book of Dahlia

“Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.”

Source: Healology

“There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.”

Government Evil Freedom Liberty Violence Libertarian Anarchy Coercion Statism Voluntaryism Laissez Faire Non Aggression Principle

Author:Frédéric Bastiat

“He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. He said is was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation.”

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing