Katherine Anne Porter Quotes About Evil

• Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

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  Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.921, Library of America

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

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  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

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  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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