Negative Impulses Quotes

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.