Veronica Roth Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Important, Divergent

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

• Human reason can excuse any evil.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Divergent, Excuse

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

• Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

  Veronica Roth

  Knowledge And Power, Evil, Knowledge Is Power

• Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined, I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me. But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Hurt, Boys

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

• The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

  Veronica Roth

  Forgiveness, Evil, Loving Someone

• Evil depends on where you're standing.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Standing, Depends

• Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.

  Veronica Roth

  Religious, Race, Evil

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

• I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.

  Veronica Roth

  Brother, Father, Gun

• Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.

  Veronica Roth

  Men, Evil, Good Man

• It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

  Veronica Roth

  Sacrifice, Evil, Giving

• The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Giving, Choices

• I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

  Veronica Roth

  Men, Evil, Good Man

• You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

  Veronica Roth

  Mom, Evil, Forgiving

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