The Psychology Of Evil Quotes

#1. The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil - it is merely a restatement of the mystery - and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.

Janet Malcolm

#2. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#3. Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.

Paul Levy

#4. Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no control, rather we define ourselves by the choices we make, moment by moment, situation by situation. All it takes is an act of will to be the best that we can be.

Laurence Overmire

#5. The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.

Paul Levy

#7. They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...

Robert K. Tanenbaum

#8. No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

Julian Jaynes

#9. To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant
because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#10. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

Stefan Molyneux

#11. What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.

Raymond L. Cramer

#12. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Stefan Molyneux

#13. Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. 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

#15. If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

John LeFevre

#16. I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Stefan Molyneux

#17. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Stefan Molyneux

#18. There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

Michael Connelly

#19. There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#20. In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

Robert Jay Lifton

#21. Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

Lars Von Trier

#22. Indigenous people have been tracking the same 'psychic virus' for many centuries, calling it 'wetiko' in Cree (windigo in Ojibwa, wintiko in Powhatan), a term that refers to a biologically wicked person or spirit who terrorizes others by means of evil acts.

Paul Levy

#23. The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

Stefan Molyneux

#24. We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

C. G. Jung

#25. When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

Dorothy Rowe