On Evil Quotes

“The interwovenness of our lives is the source of our solidarity. But it also lies at the root of our mutual harm.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil

“But it is precisely the fact that they are human that makes what terrorists do so appalling. If they really were inhuman, we might not be in the least surprised by their behaviour.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil

“An English Evangelical bishop wrote in 1991 that clear signs of Satanic possession included inappropriate laughter, inexplicable knowledge, a false smile, Scottish ancestry, relatives who have been coal miners, and the habitual choice of black for dress or car colour. None of this makes sense, but then that's how it is with evil. The less sense it makes, the more evil it is.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil

“Hell is being talked at for all eternity by a man in an anorak who has mastered every detail of the sewage system of South Dakota.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil

“The delight of the damned is to not give a damn.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil

“Capitalism is not the cause of our “fallen” state, as the more naive kind of left-winger tends to imagine. But of all human regimes, it is the one which most exacerbates the contradictions built into a linguistic animal.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil

“Morality cannot be divorced from power.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil

“Many people, conservatives point out, grow up in dismal social conditions yet become law-abiding citizens. This is rather like arguing that because some smokers don't die of cancer, nobody who smokes dies of cancer.”
― Terry Eagleton, On Evil