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“[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 evilsfascism, 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...”
“If the choice is between two evils, it is still evil,”
“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.”
“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 p...”
“Much that may seem evil can be good.”
“The purpose of evil is to complement the good. If there is no hatred in this world, there cant be any love too. While love is a positive emotion, hatred is a negative emotion. Yet the feeling of lo...”
“Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become goodwhich seems to be an impossible tasksince as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effortalmost automatically.”
“The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose all your desire and ability to do goo...”
“The very concept of evil challenges the wisdom of God because He would never create anything that is not desirable or not needed. Everything has been created in this world with a purpose.”
“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 th...”
“The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.”
“Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was, the stars were not visible.What could there be about a shadow that ...”
“This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.”
“Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.”
“Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above, and give us heroes and heroines like Lancelot and Guinevere, who ' knew ...”
“...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.”
“Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.”
“But remember, great Good will, more often than not, lead to great Evil.”
