Victor Hugo Quotes

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

I'm interested in villainy.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Evil changes everybody!

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

Evil requires no reason.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

Evil, be thou my good.

Allow the purity of evil to guide you.

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.