It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Evil is only good perverted.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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.
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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