I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I’ve written there is a thread of this: a man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. —ROD SERLING, Los Angeles Times, 1967

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
—ALBERT CAMUS, The Plague

Evil is unspectacular and always human
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
— W.H. AUDEN, Herman Melville