The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible deed of violence against someone weaker may lead others to act in order to ensure that such a deed is not perpetrated again, whereas before they might have been unaware of the reasons why an individual might behave in such a way, or they might simply have chosen to ignore them. And evil, as we saw with the Blacksmith, always contains within itself the possibility of its own redemption. It is not evil that is the enemy of hope: it is nothingness.

It is when we are completely fulfilled and want for nothing more that we are given everything.