Ben Jonson Quotes

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

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Evil changes everybody!

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil is real.

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

I'm far from a saint.

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 has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

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

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

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

... a sensual and depraved people in our midst.

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

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.

Tell me something wicked.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!