Inherent Evil Quotes

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

...she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

Evil does not grow out of the soil, nor does mischief spring from the ground. Only man is born to do mischief, just as sparks fly upward.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

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

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.

I have the belief that truly evil people, it's a genetic evil. I only have the experience of exploring the landscape of some of the characters I've played that people have labeled as evil; I don't think they're evil.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.