Quotes about Evil
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“Love is not an evil nor good thing, it is neutral.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The fear of death make people do all the stupid things in the world. You want protection from evil? But who will live forever?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Death, People, Stupidity, World

“If we allow them any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of evil, heresies and blasphemies.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Marthin Luther, Comment, ad Galat., 310. As cited by Rev. Msgr. Patrick F. O'Hare (1916), The Facts about Luther https://archive.org/details/factsaboutluther00ohar_0/page/118/mode/2up?q=%22cloak+of%22, p. 119. OCLC 4200594.

“[P]leasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good: pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil; or else the words good and evil have no meaning. And this is alike true of every sort of pain, and of every sort of pleasure.”

Jeremy Bentham book An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789; 1823), Ch. 10: Of Motives

Pain, Pleasure

“He went on to speak of the manner in which slavery was treated by the Constitution. The word 'slave' is no where used; the supply of slaves was to be prohibited after 1808; they stopped the spread of it in the territories; seven of the states abolished it. He argued very conclusively that it was then regarded as an evil which would eventually be got rid of, and that they desired, once rid of it, to have nothing in the constitution to remind them of it. The Republicans go back to first principles and deal with it as a wrong. Mason, of Va., said openly that the framers of our government were anti-slavery. Hammond of S.C., said 'Washington set this evil example'. Bully Brooks said: 'At the time the Constitution was formed, no one supposed slavery would last till now.'”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

We stick to the policy of our fathers.
1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

Time

“If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation and go to work energetically and very kindly to get rid of the evil. Now let us test them. Frank Blair tried it; and he ran for Congress in '58, and got beaten. Did the democracy feel bad about it? I reckon not, I guess you all flung up your hats and shouted 'Hurrah for the Democracy!'”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

Men, Feeling, Democracy, Thinking

“Another illustration. When for the first time I met Mister Clay, the other day in the cars, in front of us sat an old gentleman with an enormous wen upon his neck. Everybody would say the wen was a great evil, and would cause the man's death after a while. But you couldn't cut it out, for he'd bleed to death in a minute. But would you engraft the seeds of that wen on the necks of sound and healthy men? He must endure and be patient, hoping for possible relief. The wen represents slavery on the neck of this country. This only applies to those who think slavery is wrong. Those who think it right would consider the snake a jewel, and the wen an ornament.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

Death, Men, Hope, Cars

“If the Republicans, who think slavery is wrong, get possession of the general government, we may not root out the evil at once, but may at least prevent its extension. If I find a venomous snake lying on the open praire, I seize the first stick and kill him at once. But if that snake is in bed with my children, I must be more cautious. I shall, in striking the snake, also strike the children, or arouse the reptile to bite the children. Slavery is the venomous snake in bed with the children. But if the question is whether to kill it on the prairie or put it in bed with other children, I think we'd kill it!”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

Children, Lying, Question, Thinking

“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.”

Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time

Original: (fr) Ce n’est pas le mal qui lui donnait l’idée du plaisir, qui lui semblait agréable ; c’est le plaisir qui lui semblait malin.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)

Pleasure, Idea

“If the love of money is the root of all evil, the need of money is most certainly the root of all despair.”

Isaac Asimov book Half-Breed

Source: Short fiction, The Early Asimov Book One (1972), Half-Breed (p. 160)

Love, Money, Despair

“I am absolutely dumbfounded
by people
who feel they can spew out hatred and negativity like a violently sick Dragon…
but do not think of Retribution
nor the black soot that their filthy Karma is heavy with.
Karma is a real true Bitch!
She always comes to pay you a visit
when you least expect it.
I count on it…
because I work so hard to keep my side of the street clean.
The evil shan't ever win.
I'll stand there while you are burned to a crisp before me.
Good always prevails
in the End.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

People, Feeling, Thinking, Bitch

“Growth occurs outside the comfort zone.
You can not expect to evolve as a well rounded individual if you are afraid to get dirty.
I am never regretful of having tragedy and loss any longer…for I see how strong these horrendous experiences have caused me to become a pillar of strength amongst others.
From every negative circumstance any of us experience…there is another part of us that becomes engorged with strength
which not only allows us to get through that terrible circumstance, but maintain ourselves once the trauma has diminished enough for us to see things more clearly in retrospect…and experience this wonderful inner strength.
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from 'I can't do this' to 'I MUST do this!'
Also, The struggles in your life creates empathy. One can relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love you nor care that they are intentionally trying to decimate you. It is when you are faced with pure evil…when the people who were your life change and turn on you…enjoying to make you suffer. They know what they are doing. They are responsible for your pain.
Don't give up.
Look within.
Don't wear white.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Life, Pain, People

“The world has already seen many war crimes. At different times. On different continents. But it is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of such evil on earth.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

2022, Make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of this evil on earth (3 April 2022)

War, World, Time

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

Incorrectly attributed to Tolkien. It is a line from the Hobbit movie that did not appear in the books.

Love

“There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

Love

“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.”

Max Lerner (1902–1992) American journalist and educator

“If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

Beauty

“What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.”

Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice

Source: Inherent Vice

People, Sense

“But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.”

Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian

Source: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Beauty, Heart

“There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”

Agatha Christie book The Moving Finger

Source: The Moving Finger

God, Business

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Men, Time, Fight

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter II
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: A man’ s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

God

“You’re evil, you know that?” I said.
She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“I don’t know,” Call said. He was starting to worry that there weren’t any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: The Copper Gauntlet

People, Guy

“Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Love, Fight

“A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

Girl

“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.”

John Connolly (1968) author

Source: The Infernals

“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

God, Sense, Perfection

“Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

Love

“Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.”

Zainab Salbi (1969) Iraqi American author, women's rights activist

War, Strong

“I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

God, Speed

“In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.”

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer

Peace, Time, Indifference

“Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.”

James A. Owen book The Shadow Dragons

Source: The Shadow Dragons

Stupidity

“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”

Lloyd Alexander book The High King

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 11 (p. 142)

“I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac," said Magnus. "It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Wisdom

“Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

World, Way, Light, Change

“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”

Umberto Eco book The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

People

“There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?"

"Evil's afoot."

"Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

Learning

“There is evil! It's actual, like cement.

I can't believe it. I can't stand it.

Evil is not a view… it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle

World, Heart

“True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is…”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Light

“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”

Scott Douglas (1963) American wheelchair tennis player

Source: Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

People

“He was evil. Cruel, capricious, and dangerous as a cobra. A prince of darkness.

Completely evil, and completely in love with her.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

Love

“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Suffering

“Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 April 1816)
1810s

People

“He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Life, Men, Truth, Parting

“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“She had not yet decided whether to use her power for good… or for evil.”

Anne Taintor (1953) American artist

“But that too isn’t the way because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Another way is to acquiesce and to give in, to resign yourself to the oppression. Some people do that. They discover the difficulties of the wilderness moving into the promised land, and they would rather go back to the despots of Egypt because it’s difficult to get in the promised land. And so they resign themselves to the fate of oppression; they somehow acquiesce to this thing. But that too isn’t the way because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Way

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Wisdom

“Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.”

David Farland book The Courtship of Princess Leia

Source: The Courtship of Princess Leia

Way

“Julian said the world was evil and horrible - remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn't”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Kill

World

“Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”

Ted Dekker book BoneMan's Daughters

Source: BoneMan's Daughters

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Money

“I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist

Personality

“Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"

Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd… prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

Idea

“Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore." Eve”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Hell

“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Children

“Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Life, World

“When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.”

Dennis Lehane book Gone, Baby, Gone

Source: Gone, Baby, Gone

God, Children, World

“Total evil.

dang, his principal had been right all along…

he really was demonspawn.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

“She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil… Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”

Richard M. Weaver book Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

World, Optimism, Knowledge

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

Men, People, Country

“Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

Communication, Time, Heart

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

People, Soul

“Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”

Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Cry

“Everyone is more than one thing,” said Kieran. “We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

World, Hurt

“Pain, thou art not an evil”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Pain, Art

“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.”

David Gemmell book White Wolf

Source: White Wolf

Men, Lie, Strong, Cheating

“Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“EPICURUS's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?”

David Hume book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Philo to Cleanthes, Part X
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
Context: And is it possible, CLEANTHES, said PHILO, that after all these reflections, and infinitely more, which might be suggested, you can still persevere in your Anthropomorphism, and assert the moral attributes of the Deity, his justice, benevolence, mercy, and rectitude, to be of the same nature with these virtues in human creatures? His power we allow is infinite: whatever he wills is executed: but neither man nor any other animal is happy: therefore he does not will their happiness. His wisdom is infinite: He is never mistaken in choosing the means to any end: But the course of Nature tends not to human or animal felicity: therefore it is not established for that purpose. Through the whole compass of human knowledge, there are no inferences more certain and infallible than these. In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? EPICURUS's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?

Question

“Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Dance

“So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

Fight

“Crosses?"
"Definitely"
"Why?"
"Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?"
"So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Teachers

“Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

God, Angels

“Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.”

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones

Soul

“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Parting

“Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Way, Dependency

“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”

Iris Chang book The Rape of Nanking

Source: The Rape of Nanking

People

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Water

“Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

Stupidity, Time

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Help

“Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Life, Death, World, Imagination

“The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Bands of Mourning

Men

“What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book Young Goodman Brown

Source: "Young Goodman Brown"
Context: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."

Dreams, Hope, Nature, Heart