the Viscount’s wickedness spared no one and could burst at any moment into the most unforeseen and incomprehensible actions.
Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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[Concerning the invisible god] some say that he is Aapep when he riseth up with a head bearing upon it [the feather of] Maat (Truth). But others say that he is Horus when he riseth up with two heads, whereon one beareth [the feather of] Maat, and the other [the symbol of] wickedness. He bestoweth wickedness on him that worketh wickedness, and right and truth upon him that followeth righteousness and truth.
The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead), translated by E A Wallis Budge
People may start out with an initial prejudice against tyrants; but when tyrants or would-be tyrants treat them to adrenalin-releasing propaganda about the wickedness of their enemies—particularly of enemies weak enough to be persecuted—they are ready to follow him with enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]
The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“I have been shot at with broad arrows. They have called me the ‘worst man in the world.’ They have accused me of doing everything from murdering women and throwing their bodies into the Seine to drug peddling.
Some well-known journalists have delighted in attacking me in print. James Douglas described me as ‘a monster of wickedness.’ Horatio Bottomley branded me as a ‘dirty degenerate’ cannibal—everything he could think of.
Some have been more precise.” [via]