The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere. John Mortimer
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Ayn Rand
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. Evelyn Waugh
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable in contemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization. Ellen Glasgow
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
On horror’s head horrors accumulate. William Shakespeare (Othello, 3:iii)