William Banting Quotes

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.

Evil changes everybody!

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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.

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

… a sewer with all the depravity of the human race.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

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

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.