"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."

"I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach"

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."

"It’s not a pretty world, Papa.” “I’ve noticed,” my father said softly."

"I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art."

"There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?"

"I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty."

"Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often."

"Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to."

"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."

"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"

"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."

"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."

"Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on."

"Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror."

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty"

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

"Our greatest evil flows from ourselves"

"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."