Seneca the Younger Quotes

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

Evil knows no holiday.

They make haste to shed blood unjustly. For they promise blood, and gather evil. Their path runneth to evil, for they possess their souls in dishonour

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

People do horrible things.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Evil requires no reason.

Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

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

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.

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

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

Well, that's an evil smile.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

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.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.