From Odd Hours, by Dean Koontz:
If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens and, when they become leaders of nations, against humanity?
Edmund Burke provided the answer in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I would only add this, It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and [that they] be propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behavior is merely the result of a broken family’s or failed society’s shortcomings, amenable to cure by counseling and by the application of new economic theory.
Seems like I ought to be getting a “Well, duh” from readers…