Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

269. — No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Paradoxically, the worst evils in the world are committed by those who truly believe they are combating evil. Be extremely vigilant with yourself when facing evil.

But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.

No one is evil, they just make very bad decisions. And no one has super powers, they only have their street smarts.

there are bad people in this world, but mostly, there are just people who don’t know.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Evil is ignorance.

The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.

Evil people never believe that they are evil; rather, they believe that everyone else is evil.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.