“There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.”
David Farland (1957) American writer
Source: The Wizard of Ooze
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“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
Dean Koontz book Intensity
Source: Intensity
“No evil can be excused because it is done with a good intention.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Original: (la) Nullum malum bona intentione factum excusatur.
Variant: Variant translation: An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention.
Source: On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273)
“With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Illustrated London News (23 October 1909)
“Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 98
“The only excuse for God is that He does not exist.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
As quoted in "A Sentimental Education" by James Huneker, Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 43 (1908), p. 230, also quoted in Albert Camus's The Rebel and Nietzsche's Ecce Homo.
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 223
Context: Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic: it has no attributes peculiar to fallen angels. It is not even Machiavellian, for Machiavelli's teaching was graceful, subtle, and colorful. Nor is it Neronian. Nevertheless one may say of it that it fiddles while Rome burns. It is excused by two facts: it does not know that it fiddles, and it does not know that Rome burns.
“Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician