Evil Perception Quotes

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

Good to evil seems evil

Nobody sees themselves as being an evil person or doing something for a bad reason. There's always something that justifies it to themselves.

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.