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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.