Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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.