"People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are."

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Source : Terry Eagleton (2010). “On Evil”, p.4, Yale University Press

Terry Eagleton

#Goal Quotes #People Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.”
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
“A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience”
“Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.”
“Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.”
“Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.”
“I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.”
“The best mirror is an old friend.”

Source : George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

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