Jack Vance Quotes

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

People do horrible things.

Evil knows no holiday.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

This man is very evil. He tried to kill my daddy!

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

There are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them--none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way

There are worse things than war.

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

I like hurting people.

Everything evil is revenge.

There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.

Evil requires no reason.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.