Accounts Quote by Francis Bacon

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

— Epictetus

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 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

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem…

— John Steinbeck

There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen,…

— Philip Zimbardo

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

“Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked…

— Spencer Reid

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

— Jared Harris

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make…

— Ernest Becker

“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be…

— Vernor Vinge

“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good…

— Vernor Vinge