It will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and, after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive accepter of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.
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Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success.
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.
Evil is whatever distracts.
The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants, that his cause is the cause of whatever he may happen to regard as the True Church and that any compromise is a metaphysical Munich, an appeasement of Radical Evil.
Agitation over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occurred, or else are occurring at an inaccessible distance from us, achieves nothing beyond the inoculation of here and now with the remote or anticipated evil that is the object of our distress.
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.