Iris Chang Quotes

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

I feel like every time you think you really understand how deep the seductive power of evil is, it always proves to be one step deeper than you thought possible.

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.

We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological research--and there are obviously many more experiments in addition to mine and Milgram's--shows that the majority of good, ordinary, normal people can be easily seduced, tempted, or initiated into behaving in ways that they say they never would. In 30 minutes we got them stepping across that line.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.