The Anatomy of Evil Quotes

“Born evil? I know of no such person, even in the annals of crime or in the biographies of despots. The answer here is no.”
― Michael H. Stone, The Anatomy of Evil

“I am not so fortunate as to have Virgil as my guide, but I do have Dante as my inspiration.”
― Michael H. Stone, The Anatomy of Evil

“Crafts had presumably bludgeoned his wife with a blunt instrument, severed her body into manageable pieces with the chain saw, frozen them until hard in the freezer, and then transported them to the lake-there to be reduced to little pieces by the rented wood chipper.”
― Michael H. Stone, The Anatomy of Evil

“After killing the dancer, he dismembered her body, boiled her head in a kitchen pot, and placed bits of her flesh in buckets he then kept in storage facilities. Having cooked her flesh, he then, in an act of grotesque generosity, dispensed some to the homeless in his neighborhood as "meat.”
― Michael H. Stone, The Anatomy of Evil

“Dr. Harold Shipman, the victims were men and women, some in hospitals, some living at home, who were part of his patient roster.5 He murdered several hundred patients (the exact number will never be known)-mostly with opiates.”
― Michael H. Stone, The Anatomy of Evil

“Whenever the man was unconscious, the surgeon was busy stitching up the large wound. Whenever the man awoke for a bit, he would hurl vehement curses and racial epithets at the surgeon who paused momentarily in his efforts until the man became stuporous again. This back-and-forth routine continued a few times until the stitching was completed. It would have been unethical for the physician to have refused to treat the man because of his insulting behavior. ”
― Michael H. Stone, The Anatomy of Evil