David Gemmell Quotes

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

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

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.

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.

He that does evil hates the light.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.

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.

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

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.