Quote about human nature and evil?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knew any quote about

1. human nature vs. ethics

or

2. evil tendencies vs. what society believes

I would really appreciate it! Thanks!

Answer 1

To err is human; to forgive, divine.;

Self-interest motivates everyone.

Half the evil in the world is done by those intending evil; the other half is done by those intending good.

Answer 2

"human nature results in evil and death to all others." -derek m

Answer 3

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible.  Man's capacity for injustice makes democracy necessary."  

--Reinhold Niebuhr

[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

(Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)

Answer 4

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.--Mark Twain

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.  Albert Sweitzer.

The road to h**l is pave with good intentions--Archbishop Trench, from an English proverb

What is h**l?  I maintain that it is the suffering of not being able to love.---Fyodor Dostevsky

h**l is truth seen to late.--anonymous

I hope these in some way help with what you are looking for.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 7

Charlotte Perkins Gilman:

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.