Isadora Duncan Quotes

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

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

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

Nothing is easier than sinning.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

The seed of every sin is in every heart.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.