Inherently Evil Quotes

#1. The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight - not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.

Jim Butcher

#2. Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

Bram Cohen

#3. She is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.

Christopher Moore

#4. I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.

Veronica Roth

#5. ...if everybody is born essentially good, what is wrong with our society that it so often allows the goodness to go into hiding? It is easier, I suppose, just to believe that some people are born inherently evil.

Rosamund Kendal

#6. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

Patton Oswalt

#7. I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

Steven Soderbergh

#8. In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an old voodoo queen who sees spirits everywhere.

Anne Rice

#9. I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.

Des Browne

#10. When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

M. Scott Peck

#11. I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are starving. Creation is good. But the one who gave us this gorgeous token of his affection has asked us to share it with our sisters and brothers.

Ronald J. Sider

#13. Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

Bentley Little

#14. When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.

Daniel Mackler

#15. The simple-minded always look for something - if it's not pornography, it's DVDs or the Internet or video games - but I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Facebook.

David Fincher

#16. For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Alice Sebold

#17. Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

Jo Walton

#18. I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

Scott Douglas

#19. The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

Malcolm X

#20. Demon's coming! Everyone dies. Except for her useless father. He'll live for ever.

Maggie Stiefvater

#21. I don't really think in career terms.

Jeff Bridges

#22. Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!

Rosa Campbell Praed

#23. I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Jim Rogers

#24. As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

Arne Glimcher

#25. When you're gay every party is a bad sweater party.

Gary Gulman

#26. I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

Ashley Tisdale

#27. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Heath L'Estrange

#28. Had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so prosy and tiresome.

Mark Twain

#29. This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.

Tyler Oakley

#30. One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#31. Books and papers are the basis of good scholarship and sound knowledge," declared Mr Norrell primly. "Magic is to be put on the same footing as the other disciplines.

Susanna Clarke

#32. I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!

Akiane Kramarik

#33. The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

Howard Zinn

#34. People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#35. Things so seldom go exactly the way we plan.

Avery Flynn

#36. I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

Josh Radnor

#37. Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#38. But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

James MacArthur