The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the...

This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed...

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,And all their ministers attend on him.

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way....

This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most...

Silence rolled at me, in waves.

Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father {how terrible!} and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they...

A beautiful face can mask great evil...

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact....

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty - a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless - if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself. There will be times when he will surround...

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Then why do we do so many bad things?He sighed. Because one thing God gave us-and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much-is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to...