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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. -- Xun Zi
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. -- Benjamin Haydon
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
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. -- John Berger
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. -- Plato
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. -- Richard Le Gallienne
I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature. -- Richard Preston
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation. -- Jane Smiley
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do. -- Jo Nesbo
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil. -- Simon Winchester
...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. -- Nikolas Schreck
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
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. -- John Marsden
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's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care. -- James Boswell
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
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

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