Evil · Skopia

Quotes

9

Political literature

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.1

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our table.

1940

★ 5.3

Essay · Magazine · Political literature · Historical literature

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

1963

★ 5.3

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Books

5

Eichmann in Jerusalem

1963★ 7.9

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor

1955★ 7.8

East of Eden

1952★ 6.7

Pop. 1280

1964★ 5.1

The Tiger in the Smoke

Margery Allingham

1952★ 4.6