Banish Evil from the world? Nonsense! Encourage it, foster … - Jack Vance

" "
Banish Evil from the world? Nonsense! Encourage it, foster it, sponsor it. The world owes Evil a debt beyond imagination. Think! Without greed ambition falters. Without vanity art becomes idle musing. Without cruelty benevolence lapses to passivity. Superstition has shamed man into self-reliance and, without stupidity, where would be the savor of superior understanding?

Jack Vance

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Jack Vance

John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series.

Also Known As

Birth Name: John Holbrook Vance

Alternative Names: John H. Vance

All quotes from Jack Vance Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Jack Vance:

Robert Silverberg Robert A. Heinlein Robert Sheckley Michael Moorcock Iain Banks

Additional quotes by Jack Vance

Sacerdotal, religious or priest-dominated societies are like organisms with a cancer.

Enough of this intolerable inanity! I propose that such loquacity passes beyond the scope of nuisance and over the verge of turpitude.

An idea of great merit! While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

Banish Evil from the world? Nonsense! Encourage it, foster it, sponsor it. The world owes Evil a debt beyond imagination. Think! Without greed ambiti… - Jack Vance

About Jack Vance

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Jack Vance