Corruption of Innocence Quotes

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad?

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.