Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
Saint Basil
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin... →
Georges Bataille
We are all born marked for evil.
Charles Baudelaire
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is... →
Jean Baudrillard
You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By... →
Jennifer Beals
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir