As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
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