John Fowles Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

  John Fowles

  Men, Race, Self

  "The Magus".

• It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

  John Fowles

  Life, Men, Perfectly Normal

• That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

  John Fowles

  Men, Evil, Tragedy

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

• Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

  John Fowles

  Evil, Pot, Duty

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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