There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
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There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
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.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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.
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.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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