Pure Evil Quotes:

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

- Zedd

topic: People, Evil, Pure Evil

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

- Steven Pinker

topic: Believe, Evil, Moral, Pure Evil

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

- Jeff Greenfield

topic: Art, Evil, Joy, Pure Evil, Involuntary

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Heart, Evil, Imagination, Pure Evil

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

- Eugene Ionesco

source: "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

topic: People, Evil, Trying, Pure Evil

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

- David Gelernter

topic: Evil, Earth, Share, Smallpox, Pure Evil

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

- Terry Goodkind

source: Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.97, Head of Zeus

topic: Cat, Thinking, People, Pure Evil, Different Opinions

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.

- Maria V. Snyder

topic: Sweet, Brother, Evil, My Little Brother, Pure Evil

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

- Joe Queenan

topic: Real, Reading, Blood, Draining, Apotheosis

This was a dream. A very bad, bad dream, brought on by liver poisoning from too many gin and tonics. Here it was, a deal with the devil. At what price my soul? He watched me expectantly and threateningly all at the same time. If I said no, I knew what would happen. Save the glass, waitress, I’m drinking from the bottle! Happy hour, with my neck on tap. If I said yes, I’d be agreeing to a partnership with pure evil.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Dream, Drinking, Glasses, Gin And Tonic, Deals With The Devil

I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

- Walter Dean Myers

topic: Children, Swans, Years, Swan Lake, Pure Evil

Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.

- George W. Bush

topic: War, Evil, Emergencies, Pure Evil

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

- Jonathan Haidt

source: Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

topic: Evil, Politics, Opponents, Pure Evil

I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Eye, Thinking, Evil, Pure Evil, Human Frailties