Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

As it was in the beginning, Is today official sinning, And shall be forever more.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

Lies and victimhood make evil possible

All evil is good become cancerous.

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.