Laura Schlessinger Quotes

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

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

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

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

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

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

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Bad people are intriguing!

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

Evil does not grow out of the soil, nor does mischief spring from the ground. Only man is born to do mischief, just as sparks fly upward.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

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

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.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.