“Nothing like being on the receiving end of evil to know what it smells and tastes like.”
Source: The House Beyond the Dunes
“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often are events suffered in the past remembered only to justify evils done in the present.”
“The word “evil” contains nothing pathetic, nothing horrible, nothing sublime, it is objective and dry, it precisely indicates what it is actually about, it is ordinary, it is the same as the word “stone” or the word “cloud”; it's accurate matched to the subject, unmistakably falls into its reality, [...] Evil is a thing, it is as simple as a thing.
But you don’t want to hear about it. While facing the destruction you will keep repeating with manic persistence: it is so, it became so, it just became so, but it could have been different: evil is an event that happens by chance and anywhere, but if someone can stand with resolve on its way — it can be prevented. The end of the world will find you in full confidence that the end of the world is an accident. After all, you don't believe in the devil.
Seeing unnecessary cruelty, seeing joyless and aimless destruction, you don't even think about the devil. You have so many explanations and so many names at hand to explain away every aspect of the problem. You have your Freud to talk about the aggressive drive and death instinct, you have your Jaspers who tells you about the “passion for the night,” [...] you have yours Nietzsche, you have your psychologists with their “will to power”. You know how to hide a case behind words under the pretext of revealing it.”
Source: Rozmowy z Diablem
“Life can be brutal, but that is not an excuse for committing atrocities”
Source: Making Sense of Cancer: From Its Evolutionary Origin to Its Societal Impact and the Ultimate Solution
“Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence.”
Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy
“Never fear Love's absence in your life, because it already exists within you, in great abundance.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life
“Everyone said I wouldn’t make it past the palace wall, as well, and I would’ve succeeded if not for your nephew walking in.”
“A child?” Sade snorts. “You let one child get in the way of ridding the world of that evil bitch?”
I level my best glare at her next. “I don’t traumatise children. My Goddess demands death, not the innocence of babies.”
Source: Pirate Witch
“Let ugly fates warn you that the goal cannot be reached by deception and evil deeds.”
Source: A Guide to the Psyche of Atheism, Religion and Philosophy and Their Impact on Contemporary Spirituality
“It is simply an error, though no doubt an attractive and inspiring one, to suppose that there is one evil — capitalism, say, or colonialism — the destruction of which would make everything in the garden lovely.”
Source: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
“He who is imprisoned in evil does not escape from it for fear of encountering—evil.”
Source: Voices