Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
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.
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.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.
Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.