I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
Satan works through human agents.
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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