„If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.“

— Horace Mann

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„Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.“
— Franz Kafka
„Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„…And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest“
— Anthony Burgess