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If most people are good why doesn't the world get better without violence?
There’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
I like that.
Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):
"Germans: so estimable in the individual, so execrable in the aggregate". -- paraphrase of Goethe