In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless: Season One, #1)

by Dean Koontz

Those who are corrupted in turn corrupt the innocent. That is the only purpose of humanity: to deceive, to use, to dominate and destroy.

This is from the point of view of the antagonist, who is a sociopath. It is the only thing sociopaths and psychopaths believe in, which is why I find them more terrifying than villains who are just embezzlers and bank robbers and one-off murderers whose deeds an author attributes to a lack of nurturing by family or society. Needless to say, but I’ll say it anyway: This line does not reflect any aspect of my philosophy!