Dean Koontz Quotes

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

People are brutal. Just to each other.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

We need to be clear in calling out evil for what it is. When people will behead a child, and when people will leave people starving on top of a mountain without food or water - 40,000 of them - I don't care what religion it is: It's evil.

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

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

No wild beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

There are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them--none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way

Human beings can do some God-awful things to other human beings

Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.