Painterly glowing amber bulb beside an ajar blue door spilling warm light against indigo.

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Henry Ford

What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

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Our interpretation.

The speaker reframes wrongdoing as ignorance rather than malice: what people label evil is like someone stumbling around in darkness and knocking into things. The view is forgiving in tone, suggesting harm often comes from lacking understanding, not from any deliberate wish to do wrong.

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