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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.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.