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Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

— John Bradshaw

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

— Scott Derrickson

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

— Mencius

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

— Terry Eagleton

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

— Bryan Singer

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

— Charles Van Doren

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

— Niels Arden Oplev

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

— Richard Dawkins

✗Opposing Perspectives

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

— Lee Strobel

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.

— Vernon Howard

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

— Konrad Lorenz