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Evil |
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| "Today our nation saw evil, the very worst
of human nature." |
| --
George Bush, Jr., American President (in response to 9/11 U.S.
terrorism) |
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| "One does evil enough when one does
nothing good." |
| -- German Proverb |
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| "Few men are sufficiently discerning to
appreciate all the evil they do." |
| -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-80),
French writer |
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| "Evil is not the absence of
good but good itself postured inversely. Evil is the dark side of
the light of good, and lurks in the shadows, preying on the trust
and acceptance of the good. Evil is perversely fixated on opposition
to good, its hardened heart closed to the revitalizing sap of
life." |
| -- Alfred Emerson Unaterra
(1952-2002), American writer |
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| "The evil of the world is made possible by
nothing but the sanction you give it." |
| -- Ayn Rand |
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| "It
is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil
ways." |
| -- Buddha |
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| “I
have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being
unable to sit still in a room.” |
| -- Blaise Pascal |
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| "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is
not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." |
| -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924),
Polish-born British novelist |
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are
just as evil as those who steal from the public." |
| -- Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
(1903-69), German philosopher & sociologist |
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| "No evil can happen to a good man, either
in life or after death." |
| -- Plato (428 BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher |
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| "Recompense to no man evil for evil.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men." |
| -- Romans xii. 17, The Bible |
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| "The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people
who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about
it." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is
in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in
the world." |
| -- Max Born (1882-1970), German
physicist |
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| "So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or
good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a
paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist." |
| -- T. S. Eliot (1885-1968),
American-born British poet |
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| "The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that
the good Lord has not created money enough." |
| -- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856),
German writer, romantic poet, social essays |
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- "When choosing between two evils, I always like to
try the one I've never tried before."
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| -- Mae West (1892-1980), American actress |
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| "Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life
which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil." |
| -- Aldous Leonard Huxley
(1894-1963), British writer |
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| "The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does
not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." |
| -- Maria Montessori (1870-1952),
Italian physician, pioneer educator |
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| "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one
who is striking at its root." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), American writer, author, naturalist |
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| "There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as
a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish;
to bewail it senseless." |
| -- W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965), British writer |
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“Natives who beat drums to
drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who
blow horns to break up traffic jams.” |
| -- Mary Ellen Kelly |
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| "Evil is whatever distracts." |
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-- Franz Kafka, German writer |
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| "False words are not only evil in
themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." |
| -- Plato (428 BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher |
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- "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is
ignorance."
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| -- Socrates, Greek philosopher |
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing."
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-- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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| "There is no safety for honest men but by
believing all possible evil of evil men." |
| -- Edmund Burke (1729-97), Irish-born British
politician, writer |
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"When the people of the world all know
beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil." |
| -- Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC) |
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| "Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids
poison." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), [Siddhartha Gautama] Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism |
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| "It is as hard for the good to suspect
evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good." |
| -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman
statesman |
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- "Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
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| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
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- "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but
is has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of
human beings."
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| -- Helen Keller |
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| "Evil is all that serves death ... Evil
all that stifles life, narrows it down, cuts it into pieces." |
| -- Erich Fromm |
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| “The
spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is
only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact
that there can be no compromise on basic principles.” |
| -- Ayn Rand, American philosopher |
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| "If you disclose your alms, even then it
is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the
poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you
some of your evil deeds." |
| -- Koran (c. 651- AD), |
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| "Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from
nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts
bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls." |
| -- Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-65), 24th US
Vice President |
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| "As one acts and conducts himself, so does
he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes
evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad
action." |
| -- Maitri Upanishads (c. BC 800-) |
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| "So far, about morals, I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is
what you feel bad after." |
| -- Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961),
American writer |
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| "The confession of evil works is the first
beginning of good works." |
| -- Saint Augustine |
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| "Saints are sinners who kept on
going." |
| -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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