--- title: "1 Evil Exist Quotes By Paul La Farge" description: "1 Evil Exist quotes by Paul La Farge. Plus more from Paul La Farge and more Evil Exist sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/835/paul-la-farge-57130_business_as-a-freudian-i-m-not-supposed-to-use-wo_321052.jpg" --- > [“As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately, whether evil might exist. If it does, I've been thinking, it might be like what Freud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/as-a-freudian-i-m-not-supposed-to-use-words-like-evil-my-business-is/) [Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/835/paul-la-farge-57130_business_as-a-freudian-i-m-not-supposed-to-use-wo_321052.jpg) ## More by Paul La Farge > [“As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/as-a-freudian-i-m-not-supposed-to-use-words-like-evil-my-business-is/) [Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/) > [“Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/clearly-you-don-t-know-much-about-horror-he-said-horror-is-premised/) [Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/) > [“The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/the-american-id-could-not-be-educated-spinks-thought-it-needed-horror/) [Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/) > [“Scratch a professor and you find a paranoiac, Barlow thought. But scratch a dean and you find a con artist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/scratch-a-professor-and-you-find-a-paranoiac-barlow-thought-but/) [Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/) > [“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst mistake is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/the-worst-mistake-you-can-make-kroeber-taught-is-to-see-another/) [Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/) > [“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/the-paradox-of-anthropology-to-see-something-you-had-to-be-outside-of/) [Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/evil-exist/paul-la-farge/#itemlist", "name": "1 Evil Exist Quotes By Paul La Farge", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. 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