Hannah Arendt was a German-American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.
Arendt in 1933
Paul Arendt c. 1900
Martha Cohn c. 1899
Hannah Arendt with her grandfather, Max, in 1907
Evil, by one definition, is being bad and acting out morally incorrect behavior; or it is the condition of causing unnecessary pain and suffering, thus containing a net negative on the world.
Sendan Kendatsuba, one of the eight guardians of Buddhist law, banishing evil in one of the five paintings of Extermination of Evil
The devil, in opposition to the will of God, represents evil and tempts Christ, the personification of the character and will of God. Ary Scheffer, 1854.
Extermination of Evil, The God of Heavenly Punishment, from the Chinese tradition of yin and yang. Late Heian period (12th-century Japan).
Martin Luther believed that occasional minor evil could have a positive effect.