Quotes About Innate Evil

#1. Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

Doron Zeilberger

#3. It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.

J. Maarten Troost

#4. The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

Sam Keen

#5. It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Marc Davis

#6. One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#7. Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#8. All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

Bill Parcells

#9. When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Blaise Pascal

#10. The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough.

Robin Benway

#11. I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

Nas

#12. Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

Indra Nooyi

#13. Who am I to judge me?

Ljupka Cvetanova

#14. I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

Harry Connick Jr.

#15. Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart.

Nick Cave

#16. If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

Kate Christensen

#17. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When

Yuval Noah Harari