Considering Quote by Jane Smiley

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce…

— Andrew Carnegie

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

— Anonymous

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

— William Barr

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

— Xunzi

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.

— Wayne LaPierre

“Good and evil are not static; they are dynamic. Each one continually feeds on itself just like compound interest in the bank. Good is…

— C.S. Lewis

“Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that…

— Abraham Lincoln

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. .. Communities tend to be…

— Albert Einstein