No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they're doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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