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'ConnorTags: devil writing evil grace on-fiction fiction storytelling
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Eph. 6:12 (NIV)
AnonymousDan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Alan MooreTags: life evil apocalypse plot mastermind ozymandias
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
Evelyn WaughIt is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: evil future-inspirational
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph HellerTags: politics lies evil opportunism donald-trump lack-of-character
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar GraciánTags: choice evil strategy invitation
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.
Keith AblowTags: evil
The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'
That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.
Tags: evil
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
Erich FrommTags: belief evil religion psychoanalysis
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