Philip Pullman Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

  Philip Pullman

  Life, Believe, Names

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Believe, Simple

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

  Philip Pullman

  Evil, Freedom Of Speech, Intellectual

  "Pullman defiant over US protests against Northern Lights" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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