Averages Quote by David Brin

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

— Aldous Huxley

The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is…

— Arthur Koestler

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

— Sylvia Hoeks

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

— Rudolf Steiner

“that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.”

— James Redfield

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”

— Joseph Brodsky

“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

The single most instinctive evil is discrimination

— Rahul Bose

“evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a fly, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

— Epictetus

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as…

— Philip Zimbardo

“...if everybody is born essentially good, what is wrong with our society that it so often allows the goodness to go into hiding? It…

— Rosamund Kendal