“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”

- Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Something like this could only be said by a person or character who was, is or is certain of being in power in the near future. For a belief such as this can only be based on thoughts and ponderings about oneself. If we were to reword Voldemort’s statement we would be presented with something like this, “There is no good and evil, there is only me and what I can do and you and what you can not do”. To continue the thought, something like this could be added by Voldemort, “You weren’t lucky, I was. I received the power. If you were in my place you would be doing the same thing, making the same decision. Because you aren’t, you are jealous of me and what I own and so call it evil”.

People can hold on to such a repulsive belief only if they maintain faith in the fact that they can walk away unpunished after committing heinous crimes. For you can do whatever you like if you don’t think you have to pay for it.

Someone who could be and often is compared to Voldemort is Hitler, although Hitler might be thought of as a banal example, he is a more realistic and personally relatable figure. Hitler had points in his life when he was in power, made decisions, but did not have to personally face the consequences. This is the core reason he could keep on going, not because he had faith in the fact that his deeds were bringing virtue and integrity into the world. He recognized that what he was doing was evil. His suicide denotes this statement. When he realized that he would not get away with the atrocities he had committed if he was not the victor, he decided to take his life, rather than face the consequences of his actions. His precise words were, “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” People cannot believe evil things to be good, they can, however, believe that they can avoid punishment for the evil they do. When in this belief, they will no longer call evil by name, but no matter how hard they try, they will still see it for what it really is.

1. Something- pronoun

2. By- preposition

3. Or- conjunction

4. Being- verb

5. Future- noun

6. Good- noun

7. And- conjunction

8. Evil- noun

9. Not- adverb

10. The- adjective

11. Jealous- adjective

12. I- pronoun

13. People- noun

14. Hold- verb

15. Repulsive- adjective

16. Away- adverb

17. After- adverb

18. Heinous- adjectives

19. Although- conjunction

20. Banal- adjective

21. Personally- adverb

22. Consequences- noun

23. Because- conjunction

24. Suicide- noun

25. Denotes- verb

26. He- pronoun

27. Atrocities- noun

28. Precise- adjective

29. If- conjunction

30. Beleive- verb

31. Avoid- verb

32. In- preposition

33. They- pronoun

34. Hard- adverb

35. Is- verb