Veronica Roth Quotes

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

It's always good to remind yourself of how awful people can be, even when they seem to be projecting kindness.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.