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When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

— Thomas Foran

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

— Sophocles

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

— Niels Arden Oplev

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

— John Lewis

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

— Peter Shaffer

Nobody is born evil.

— Alice Miller

✗Opposing Perspectives

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

— Selena

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

— Maisie Williams

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

— Jane Howard

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

— Andrew Vachss