Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
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.
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