George Whitefield 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

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

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

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.

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

When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.

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.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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

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

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

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.

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

Man without conscience is wilder and more dangerous than any beast.

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

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

God made nightButMan made darkness.

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

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

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

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

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

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

The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.