„The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.“

— James Baldwin

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„It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.“
— Emily Brontë
„People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.“
— Terry Pratchett
„If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste.- Carter Kane“
— Rick Riordan