Aggressiveness Quote by Arthur Koestler

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny…

— Sam Keen

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

— Tim Kaine

Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim

— Dennis Prager

“What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

— Rudolf Steiner

“Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit…

— David Brin

It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally)…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power.…

— M. Scott Peck

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

— Niels Arden Oplev

People do evil simply because they do not know.

— Cheng Yi

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect…

— Thomas Merton