If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.
Wickedness is its own punishment.
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.