I think you're missing a couple of important points here. If being nice to people would get him what he wanted, he would do it. Power rains over good and evil and determines the outcome of either. If I murder someone, I will be "evil" but when the government does it (death sentence, war, etc. I'm not sure if I'm ready to bring God into this argument except to point out even he had dissenters. That's because the government has power, while I don't. It's the evil among us who rule now. There's no double standard here. Goodness is the only investment which never fails. When did this place become infested with trolls/brigaders? Characters are too often written as 2-dimensional caricatures of themselves. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the harrypotter community. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it." The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. There's also the very personal aspect of him feeling betrayed by someone whom he had built up so much in his mind. The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. I'm just trying to use your own example to illustrate my point). I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. What if the United States had dropped atomic bombs on North Korea and China during the Korean War? My thoughts of voldy's quote: I always took him to mean that people will do whatever they want,whether good or bad as long as they gain from it. But a human being has the choice to make the world a better or a worse place. Dumbledore was ready to have Harry murdered(before dumbledore's revelation in goblet of fire that that was when he knew that Harry wouldn't die,we don't know if before that,whether dumbledore knew that Harry might not die.). Satire. "There is no good and evil, only power and those too weak to seek it" - Voldemort, the world's first postmodernist neo-Marxist. Bear with what comes extemporaneously here. We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. To add to what you said,I would also use dumbledore himself to prove voldemort has some point about his quote. OP is making the worst sort of low brow post that is deeply ignorant of history. 277. Harry never truly questioned dumbledore's morals because he was in a position of the "father of the light side",dumbledore had power in that regard. I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. There is only power... and those too weak to seek it. "there is no good or evil. I was groped in a public toilet by a transwoman. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.