If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.