"There are no explanations for human evil. Only…" — Dean Koontz

"There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses."

— Dean Koontz

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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's…
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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