Quote by Victor Hugo

“To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.”

— Victor Hugo

“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was indistinctly…

— Victor Hugo

“When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on…

— C.S. Lewis

“. . . or is it that man contains within himself the seeds of evil? That even if he is placed in a paradise…

— Catherine Fisher

“What great good, then, we are to expect and hope from participating in his divinity, when even his distress calms us and his weakness…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Let him consider how all want of love, all indifference to the needs, the feelings, the weakness of others; all sharp and hasty judgments…

— Andrew Murray

“He was a mighty beast, mightily muscled, and the urge that has made males fight since the dawn of life on earth filled him…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“All things seemed in their kinds to be my enemies... It seemed then to my apprehension to proceed from indignation, wrath, and as it…

— Richard Norwood English Puritan 1638

“It is in a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.”

— Buddha

“But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it.…

— Charles Darwin

“It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.”

— Franz Kafka

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne