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Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

George Hickenlooper

The best men are not consistent in good– why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

Wilkie Collins

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.

Alfred Bester

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Dean Koontz

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

Daniel Defoe

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

Salman Khurshid

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Anthony Burgess

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Sigmund Freud

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Chuck Palahniuk

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

Peter Kropotkin

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Pope Francis

There is the seed of all sins–of the vilest and worst of sins–in the best of men.

Thomas Brooks

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

Thomas Chalmers

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don’t they?

Kirsten Dunst

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