I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me.
— Charles Manson
What do men not corrupt every day? There is nothing so innocent that men cannot turn it to crime; nothing so beneficial that its values cannot be reversed; nothing so good in itself that it cannot be put to bad uses.
— Molière, Tartuffe
I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
'Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent—
That is my proper element.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be—the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer—which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
— Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.
— Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
— Revelation 6:8
A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation
Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.
— David Wong, John Dies at the End
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
— Remy de Gourmont
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