Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

It is a lamentable reflection that a man may be at the same time so insane as to be reckless of his own life and the lives of others, and to be pronounced free from moral responsibility, and yet capable of preparing for the commission of murder with the utmost caution and deliberation, and of taking every step which shall enable him to commit it with certainty.

Ethical and legal are not synonyms. ;

The famine has been sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson.... The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.

Word to God, we murderers.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake