“It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.”
“It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.”
“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”
“Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.”
“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ”