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Political literature

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.1

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our table.

1940

★ 5.3

Essay · Magazine · Political literature · Historical literature

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

1963

★ 5.3

Political literature

The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

On Revolution · 1963

★ 3.6

Interview · Magazine

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

2016

★ 3.6

Religious literature

Of the two evils the lesser is always to be chosen.

Thomas a Kempis

1427

★ 2.2

Film · Adventure (film) · Adventure

What would the world be like without Captain Hook?

Hook · 1991

★ 2.2

Philosophical literature

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

The Life of the Mind · 1975

★ 1.9