A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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.
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.