God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
― T.S. Eliot
If our good intentions are hinged on ignorance or figments, we remain anyhow responsible for our acts and must assume our decisions, making amends for damage. If we want to eschew awkward entanglements, we shall sharpen our perception, stay on top of what is truly going on worldwide and what our inner circles experience, and understand how they react to sensitive issues
The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague
