Anthony Horowitz Quotes

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.