Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
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People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
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