Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Evil changes everybody!

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

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Evil is only good perverted.

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

Never will there be grief enough over the corruption of morals so extensively increasing and promoted by irreligious and obscene writings, theatrical spectacles and meretricious houses established almost everywhere; by other depraved arts and monstrous portents of every error disseminated in all directions; by the abominable impurities of all vices and crimes growing constantly and the deadly virus of unbelief and indifferentism spread far and wide; by contempt for ecclesiastical authority

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

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.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.