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  • Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For instance, perhaps this is a story not about the hereditary nature of evil, but rather you could interpret it from a different perspective, too.

    "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.
  • The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

    Evil   Guy   Cinema  
    "Lights, Camera, Murder!". Interview with Amos Roberts, www.sbs.com.au. October 15, 2013.
  • The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

    Real   Dragons   Evil  
  • It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122
  • The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.

    Powerful   Sick   Evil  
    Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.17
  • As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

    Heart   Troops   Looks  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22
  • Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]
  • At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.

  • The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

    "Party animal". www.theguardian.com. April 25, 1999.
  • The lack of money is the root of all evil.

    Funny   Bible   Sarcastic  
    Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press
  • I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

  • Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

    Love You   Men   Yield  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”
  • Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  • The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  • Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

    Stars   Halloween   Dark  
    William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.279
  • ..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

    Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.

    "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.
  • For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

    Wisdom   Men   Evil  
  • I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

    Men   Thinking   Evil  
  • The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

    Should Have   Long   Evil  
    Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.299, GENERAL PRESS
  • Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

    Roots   Evil   Littles  
    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44
  • When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.

    Judging   People   Evil  
    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.90, Criss Jami
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