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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

T. S. Eliot
Evil, Wickedness, Way
T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.225, Faber & Faber
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.