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Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")
— Julian Hawthorne
We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
— Adam Smith
He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— James F. Cooper
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
— Richard M. Nixon
Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
— Benjamin Haydon
Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.
— Eric Hoffer
evil is the nature of mankind.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
— Adam Hamilton
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
— James St. James
O change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
— Jeanette Winterson
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
— Joseph Addison
There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.
— Thomas Chalmers
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.
— Joel C. Rosenberg
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.
— Marcus Aurelius
Everything in the universe is good to the degree it conforms to the nature of God and evil as it fails to do so. - A.W. Tozer
— John Bevere
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.
— Walter Lippmann
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The process of nature cannot be evil.
— Joseph Campbell
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
— Gregory Maguire
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
— Edward Gibbon
Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can be abolished or changed.
— Samuel Bolton
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. — E.A. Bucchianeri
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. — E.A. Bucchianeri
Evil is an adjective. It is an adjective used to describe those actions of man (and their effects) that are contrary to the nature of God.
— N.D. Wilson
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
— David F. Wells
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli