„the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons“

— Hannah Arendt

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„He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.“
— Jr.
„If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.“
— Jr.
„[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.“
— Jr.
„About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.“
— Paulo Coelho
„There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.“
— Ayn Rand
„Jesus bluntly calls the evil person evil.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer