Daily Inspiration Quote by Dennis Potter

Potter refuses the comforting math where evil is merely the absence of good. He treats it as an active ingredient, a living culture that multiplies when you give it time, secrecy, and a little oxygen. The line is doing narrative work as much as moral work: in drama, nothing stays inert. An action is never just an event; it’s a generator of consequences, habits, and story.

The word “fester” is surgical and bodily, suggesting infection under a bandage: not melodramatic villainy, but a small wrong left untreated until it becomes systemic. Then he pivots to “create,” a verb usually reserved for art, love, and progress. That theft of a “positive” word is the point. Potter is telling you that harm is productive in the bleakest sense: it breeds rationalizations, complicities, cover stories, and the kind of emotional calluses that make the next bad act easier. He’s mapping how a single choice can reorganize a person.

“Yeast” lands as a domestic, almost cozy metaphor, which sharpens the sting. Yeast is ordinary; it’s what makes bread rise. By borrowing that image, Potter implies that corruption can feel like normal life: a quiet rising, a slow expansion you don’t notice until the loaf is already baked. That’s a signature Potter move, in keeping with his television dramas’ obsession with memory, guilt, and the way private damage metastasizes across years. The intent isn’t to moralize; it’s to warn that wrongdoing doesn’t just stain you, it starts making things - new versions of you, and new worlds around you - unless it’s confronted early.