Quotes About Human Capacity For Evil

#1. As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Desmond Tutu

#2. Jesus was no cold Superman - he was more human than any of us. Entirely pure, unweakened by evil, he was loving and open to the core. His ardor, truth, sensitivity, power, capacity for joy and pain were unlimited, and everything that happened to him happened in the immeasurableness of his divinity.

Romano Guardini

#3. That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

Kiera Cass

#4. An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

Jan Gehl

#5. An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [ ... ] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

George R R Martin

#6. For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Anthony Doerr

#7. We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.

Nick Sagan

#8. My body, I give for your comfort. My life, I swear for your children. My heart, I gift to you alone." She

Jo Noelle

#9. The danger is not Islam or Christianity or any other religion. It is the human heart - the capacity we all have for evil. All human institutions with a lust for power give their utopian visions divine sanction

Chris Hedges

#10. There were good and bad in every race, no matter the color of a man's skin. If Adam had learned anything in his life it was that the human soul held a great capacity for both good and evil.

Anonymous

#11. I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.

Tom Hiddleston

#12. A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.

Jim McGarrah

#13. It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

Chad Harbach

#14. When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

Alexandre Aja

#15. The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

Charles De Gaulle

#16. Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness:

Bernard Lown