More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
June 9 - August 1, 2018
Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.”
It is not enough for a woman to murder an enemy; she wants to make him suffer, and she enjoys his death.”
Reducing other people to subhuman status is the very essence of evil, and students of her crimes have struggled to account for its origins in Belle: the vicious assault she ostensibly suffered in adolescence that ignited her hatred of men; the pathological greed that transformed her into a “Bluebeard with a profit motive.”[7]
