Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. —W.H. AUDEN, A Certain World Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table. —W.H. AUDEN, “Herman Melville” The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. —EDMUND BURKE, attributed [This has not been found in Burke’s writings.] The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. —JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes The
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