Margaret Atwood Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

  Margaret Atwood

  Stupid, Evil, Judging

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

• Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Graduation, Moving

• If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

  Margaret Atwood

  Government, Evil, Political

• The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

  Margaret Atwood

  Betrayal, Evil, Doubt

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Character, Two

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.44, Anchor

• 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

  Evil, Sometimes, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 06, 2011

• More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Evil, Rich

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

• Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

  Margaret Atwood

  Evil, Ability, Extremes

• I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

  Margaret Atwood

  Queens, Lying, Taken

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK

• Canada, at the moment, is going through a Lord of the Rings moment. Having been a lowly Hobbit with furry feet and fun parties, with fireworks and beer, it has now been handed the Ring of Power: a large supply of fossil fuel, in the form of oil/tar sand and coal. Will it shrivel into an evil RingWraith? Will it become an addicted Golum? Will it refuse the Ring, like Galadriel, fearful of what So Much Power (in both senses of the word) will do to its inner being? Will it try to deal with the Ring responsibly, like Gandalf? Will it side with the Ents?

  Margaret Atwood

  Fun, Party, Beer

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