QUOTES BY M. Scott Peck

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

There are a number of different theological models of evil ... This book will concern itself solely with the subject of human evil, and its primary focus will be on 'bad people'.

Dangerous though a psychology of evil might be, it will be more dangerous not to have one.

It would, I believe, be quite appropriate to classify evil people as constituting a specific variant of the narcisstic personality disorder.

The spirit of evil is one of unreality, but it itself is real. To think otherwise is to be misled.

If we attempt te deal with (human) evil by destroying it, we will also end up destroying ourselves, spiritually if not physcially. And we are likely to take some innocent people with us as well.

Evil can be thought of as the exercise of political power — that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion in order to avoid extending oneself for the purpose of nurturing spiritual growth.

My favorite definition of evil is that it is militant ignorance.

Evil is that force ... residing either inside or outside of human beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness.