who are the most evil individuals in history?

Question

i need more than dictators. im looking for an evil individual to fit each criteria:
-Master (at some domain ex: Mozart)
-Maker (of some domain ex: Sigmund Freud)
-Introspector (of themself ex: Virginia Woolf)
-Influencer (of people ex: Ghandi)

if you noticed, those examples were of "good" people. i want to write an essay to show that great individuals dont always have to be good.

Now, the influencer i know i'm going to use someone like hitler, since he is most notably greatest evil speaker. but what about the others?

please send answer with the smartest evil people you know!

Answer 1

Master: Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, Pol Pot, Doctor Doom

Maker: Ghengis Kahn. I can't think of anyone that competes.

Introspector: Tough one. Niccolò Machiavelli?

Influencer: Yeah, probably Hitler.

Answer 2

Hitler
Now I know you said no dictators, but Hitler has become the anti-teacher. Endless chat room arguments contain the phrase "well Hitler would, or Hitler..." . It's as if you can win any argument by just proving Hitler supported the opposite. Hitler was a vegetarian, well Hitler liked the color black and red, well Hitler was for Gun control, Hitler he liked Wagner, well Hitler didn't like the Pope, etc... The way some people invoke Jesus, but in an opposite manner.
Also Hitler has become evil short hand. Want to be thought of as a badass? Slap on a swastika, it's good enough for Bikers. No time for character developement in a movie? make the character a nazi, or a neo-nazi, or best yet a genetic clone of Hitler. Even some brain dead teen who barely knows how to read can scrawl a nice swastika on the desk, warm and fuzzy in the surety that it'll offend something.

Answer 3

I think the terms evil or good are way too generalized--it all depends upon your point of view. I'm sure had the US still dropped the bombs over Nagasaki and Hiroshima but lets say Japan still had by some miracle won the war, Truman would have been demonized as a mass murderer with no honor and thus evil in Japanese society. That sort of example can be had thousands of times over. I believe the Germans during WW2 thought of Hitler as a savior against communism and the mass murder purges of millions of Russians were known of somewhat before that time. It all depends on ones point of view.

Answer 4

I question Freud myself. He thought that women were mentally inferior to men. Okay maybe he wasn't evil, but still the thought of that man. Hitler, Caesar the 2nd maybe, that loon King Loius, and that awful Napoleon- I won't even go into what he thought about women. Curse those male pigs! So, how have you been?

Answer 5

I personally don't think that people can be evil, but just chose not to be the best person they can be, but to answer your question...
Someone who was considered a master at some domain... Michael Jackson (dancing). He has chosen to have children over at his house, and in his bedroom, something that I consider not the best choice. You could discuss how people might view him as evil.
Someone who was considered a maker of some domain... whoever invented the cigarette. People might consider that person evil.
Someone who was an introspector... Whitley Strieber. He is a man that believes aliens abducted him, and he has books out there to prove it. People might find him evil because they do not believe in aliens, and the idea of aliens existing might be evil to some people because of how strange and different the idea is.
And an influencer... Hitler. He was greatly influensive.

Answer 6

Gandhi....
was a great leader (the master of a social revolution). People see him as benevolant, but when the indian constitution was going to be ratified...he fought against basic rights for the lower-caste to elect their own leaders (trough a hunger strike). In fact, his actions led the indian leaders to not put into the books legislation that would have otherwised done away with the cast system.

Gandhi was a high-caste, but he claimed to be able speak for the lower-caste...

Answer 7

Interesting question, of course we all see things differently.
Master: George Bush
Maker: Eminem
Introspecter: Howard Stern
Influencer: The Pope

I would add:

Institutions: Catholic church
Corportions: Oil Companies
Political Party: Republican
Manipulator: Television

Answer 8

Master: queen Victoria (opium war; boers war)
Maker: Pizarro (destruction of South American civilizations)
Influencer: Karl Marx

Answer 9

As a fan of the Roman Empire when asked that question I often hear the answer "The Emporer Gaius Caligula" of the Julio-Claudian Family (the founding family of the Roman Empire. However, when one looks deeper a case for Caligula's depravities seem somewhat justified when you learn of his upbringing; how he watched most members of his family die at his Uncle (the Emporer Tiberius's) hand, how his own younger sister's plotted his assasination in order to put their mutual lover in power, and simply how most gossip about his sexual relationships with his sisters are simply that...gossip...of the ancient sort (which of course can never be proven true or not). Anyone with an open heart can see Caligula was doomed before he embarked on life's journey. Once we do so our eyes turn to one of his Predator's The Emporer Tiberius. Under the influence of his subordinate, Sejanus, Tiberius exiled his own wife, her grand -daughter, two of his great-grandsons, and many other members of the patrician class under the charge of treason. He arguably had something to do with the death of Germanicus, his adopted son and successor and, like Caligula, was subject to all kinds of ancient gossip. Some of the gossip so disgusting it just goes to show how the ancient romans viewed him even if it isn't true. For example, Suentonius writes "Then in Capri's woods and groves he arranged a number of nooks of venery where boys and girls got up as Pans and nymphs solicited outside bowers and grottoes: people openly called this "the old goat's garden," punning on the island's name," and He acquired a reputation for still grosser depravities that one can hardly bear to tell or be told, let alone believe. For example, he trained little boys (whom he termed tiddlers) to crawl between his thighs when he went swimming and tease him with their licks and nibbles; and unweaned babies he would put to his organ as though to the breast, being by both nature and age rather fond of this form of satisfaction. Left a painting of Parrhasius's depicting Atalanta pleasuring Meleager with her lips on condition that if the theme displeased him he was to have a million sesterces instead, he chose to keep it and actually hung it in his bedroom. The story is also told that once at a sacrifice, attracted by the acolyte's beauty, he lost control of himself and, hardly waiting for the ceremony to end, rushed him off and debauched him and his brother, the flute-player, too; and subsequently, when they complained of the assault, he had their legs broken. How grossly he was in the habit of abusing women even of high birth is very clearly shown by the death of a certain Mallonia. When she was brought to his bed and refused most vigorously to submit to his lust, he turned her over to the informers, and even when she was on trial he did not cease to call out and ask her "whether she was sorry"; so that finally she left the court and went home, where she stabbed herself, openly upbraiding the ugly old man for his obscenity. Hence a stigma put upon him at the next plays in an Atellan farce was received with great applause and became current, that "the old goat was licking the does." Even though he was able to balance the budget and provide stability for the people of the empire. Tiberius was an evil man who used the criminal justice system against his own family because he was jealous and afraid of their ambitions. After adopting Caligula, he even told Sejanus he was nesting a viper for the roman people.

Answer 10

Master - Alexander the great
Maker - Marque desade
Introspestor - Machivelli
Influencer - Alexander again