Certainly Right

Maxwell Perkins, the famous book editor, once wrote, “One of my deepest convictions is that the terrible harms that are done in this world are not done by deliberately evil people, who are not numerous and are soon found out. They are done by the good—by those who are so sure that God is with them. Nothing can stop them, for they are certain that they are right.

Quoted by Father Henry Fehren in U.S. Catholic, May 1986