Comte de Lautreamont Quotes

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.