Terry Eagleton Quotes

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

I'm a villain at heart. I'm a born villain.

Evil is real.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

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

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

… most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

Sometimes I feel evil!

I am the evil seed.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Evil requires no reason.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.