We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.
A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.
That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
A drone isn't any different than a bomb; it's not any different than other weapons that are used, where there is always a capacity for people to be killed who you wished were not.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
I lament that two or three women and children were killed by accident.
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.
Evil is wrought by want of thought
