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  • Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.

    War   Evil   Emergencies  
  • A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

    Real   Reading   Blood  
  • Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

    Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books
  • 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.

    Eye   Thinking   People  
    "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

    Children   Lakes   Swans  
  • Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

    "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". "Esquire" Magazine, May 1961.
  • If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

    Believe   Evil   Moral  
  • This was a dream. A very bad, bad dream, brought on by liver poisoning from too many gin and tonics. Here it was, a deal with the devil. At what price my soul? He watched me expectantly and threateningly all at the same time. If I said no, I knew what would happen. Save the glass, waitress, I’m drinking from the bottle! Happy hour, with my neck on tap. If I said yes, I’d be agreeing to a partnership with pure evil.

  • There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

    People   Evil   Pure Evil  
  • This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

    Art   Evil   Joy  
  • People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

    People   Evil   Trying  
    "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.
  • I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.

    Sweet   Brother   Evil  
  • There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

    Cat   Thinking   People  
    Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.97, Head of Zeus
  • We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

    Evil   Earth   Share  
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