Dean Koontz Quotes

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

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

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

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.

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.

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.

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

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

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

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

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

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

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

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

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

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

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.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

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

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

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

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

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

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.