Boys Quote by David Gemmell

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their…

— Yukio Mishima

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

— Desmond Tutu

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and…

— Michel Foucault

Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such…

— Charles Buck

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts…

— Eric Hoffer

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

— Samuel Johnson

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to…

— Anonymous

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy…

— Joseph Addison

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever…

— Abigail Adams

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have…

— Robert Briffault

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

— David Gemmell