Abhorrence Quote by Thomas Malthus

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

— Louisa May Alcott

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

— Max Lerner

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with…

— Charles Brockden Brown

“The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that…

— Daniel Hecht

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every…

— Janet Fitch

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus

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

— Charles Baudelaire

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the…

— Martin Luther

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

— John G. Lake

“If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes of the…

— George Eliot

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have…

— George Santayana