L. J. Smith Quotes

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Evil requires no reason.

Evil knows no holiday.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

Hate is the father of all evil.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.