“To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity. ”

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”

“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”

“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?”

“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. ”

“The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.”