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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. — Adam Smith

You're either good, or you're clever. — Mackenzi Lee

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature. — Richard M. Nixon

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind. — Abhijit Naskar

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. — Benjamin Haydon

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. — Iris Chang

Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world. — Abhijit Naskar

I have experienced real horror. I have known true evil. Its name is human nature. — James Newman

Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind. — Abhijit Naskar

How do evil people find the strength to do good? — Keith Hollihan

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. — Eric Hoffer

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes. — Plato

The explanation was plain; this desolation out here called forth all that was evil in human nature. — O.E. Rolvaag

There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

Man is meant for good but designed for evil. — Raheel Farooq

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes. — Plato

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to
live at all. — Ernest Becker

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature. — Travis Luedke

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

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it! — Jane Austen

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. — Barrows Dunham

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls? — M.F. Moonzajer

If you want to ask how evil begins, just look to basic human nature. What's good gets bent, and bad is the inevitable result. — Anonymous

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". — Stefan Molyneux

Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances. — F.W. Boreham

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. — Nikolas Schreck

Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him? — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. — Xun Zi