Cormac McCarthy Quotes

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Evil changes everybody!

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

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.

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.