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“...one cannot deal with pure evil, with the naked, full-conscious evil that neither has nor seeks justification.”
“..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in a...”
“….This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.”
“Alas! There's no one in hell ... all the devils are here!”
“It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'-Connor”
“I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent...”
“Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?”
“God, in the dream, illumined the animal's brutishness and he understood the reasons, and accepted his destiny; but when he awoke there was only a dark resignation, a valiant ignorance, for the mach...”
“Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?”
“…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.”
“[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to hav...”
“Among the world's evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.”
“At the Nuremberg trials, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt described the actions and the architects of the Holocaust with a simple, memorable phase--saying that the whole lot represented 'the...”
“It is said in the Upanishads: ‘I am the Universe.’ If you ask a hundred people as to how they find the world, they are all likely to give different answers. For some, the world is beautiful and the...”
“Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become good—which seems to be an impossible task—since as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effort—almost automati...”
“Everyone,” Caitlin said, cradling her wine glass, “is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all ...”
“Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.”
“...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
“Justice doesn’t talk. It sings!”
“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”
