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The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

— Philip Zimbardo

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

— Max Weber

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

— Samuel Butler

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

— Samuel Butler

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

— Charles W. Chesnutt

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

— John Locke

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

— Stephen King

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

— Horace Mann

✗Opposing Perspectives

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