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

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

Is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?

Is there evil but on earth? or pain in every peopled sphere?

We desperately want to learn someone’s true intentions (their desired outcome) because it helps us predict their behavior

But sometimes our worst pain comes from people w the best intentions

If someone only hurts you, you need to start listening to your eyes more than your ears

All acts, and only those acts, that coercively harm others are evil.

For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness. ...Evil people never believe that they are evil, rather, they believe that everyone else is evil.

In their minds we're not human...They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us. (p255)

I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me.

How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world?

People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power;

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Evil means, he insisted, corrupt and degrade not only the purposes for which they are undertaken but also the persons who stoop to such means. Overcoming the urge to resort to such means is hardest when one aims to rectify past injustices. It is because ‘hate the sin and not the sinner’ is a precept so rarely practiced that the poison of hatred spreads in the world.