“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”— Tana French, amazon.com
“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time--affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage,…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“They’re not monsters. They want what we want: safety, security, health, and wealth. It’s not even us vs. them. It’s just us.”— John Biggs, thearcmag.com
“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”— Buddha, amazon.com
“Had a dream where evil space creatures intent on destroying humankind land, watch us for a few days, shrug, then take off.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.com
“When you find somebody like, let's say, Ted Bundy, who tortured and killed all those women and sometimes went back and had sex with the dead bodies, I don't think when you look at his upbringing... That behavior was hard-wired. Evil is inside us. The older I get, the less I think there's some sort o…”— Stephen King, rollingstone.com
“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fi…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“The man who kidnapped and raped me was a manipulative, antisocial, and narcissistic pedophile. He was not clinically psychotic or delusional. He was just an evil man.”— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com
“We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com