“Evil is a point of view.” -Anne Rice, Interview With Vampire
“When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.” -Anonymous
“Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.” -Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels
“Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.” -August Strindberg, The Dance of Death
“Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?” -Laurell K. Hamilton, “Here Be Dragons”
“Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.” -Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain!” -William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Very few people see their own actions as truly evil.... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.” -Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon
“To ignore his capacity for evil is as obtuse as blinding oneself to the heights to which he can soar.” -Ariania Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death
“In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.” -E. H. Chapin, Living Words
“Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.” -Austin O' Malley, Keystones of Thought
“No man is permanently and fixedly evil, until he is willingly evil.” -Reuen Thomas, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
“Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform.” -Norman Macdonald, Maxims and Moral Reflections
“Evils which we think ended are often displaced by worse ones.” -Edward Counsel, Maxims
“The more you are offended at your evil thoughts, the less they are yours.” -Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
“Where Evil is returned for Evil, the first offender thinks himself excused, because the other is as faulty as he.” -Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
“I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, stil, you couldn't look at him the same way again.” -David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living.” -John Gardner, The Art of Fiction
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.” -Glen Cook, The Black Company
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