I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence…

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative…

— Thomas Aquinas

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

— Maurizio Cattelan

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

— Michael Dell

I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end…

— Darrell Hammond

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs…

— Bill Bryson

I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other…

— David Gerrold

“The absence of empathy is the embodiment of evil”

— Azeez Adeyinka Lawal

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea…

— Hayao Miyazaki

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

— Anonymous

“I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top—in the corporate and political worlds—a clinical absence of empathy…

— Jon Ronson

“Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city…

— Jonathan Kozol

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”

— Charles M. Blow

“Evil is not the opposite of love; evil is the absence of love.”

— Robert W. Chapman

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

— Gary Zukav

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

— Albert Einstein