evil behavior Quotes

The wicked are always ungrateful.

There aren't demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Even when we see somebody incredibly evil, there's a rationalization behind what they're doing. They're at their best when they're at the moment.

Most evil characters, if they're not psychopathic, they become that way because they believe in what they're doing.

I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil.

The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they're doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.