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~ Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it. ~ ~ He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ~ ~ The problem of evil...Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? ~ ~ The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ~ ~ One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ~ ~ Nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~ ~ On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends. ~ ~ All evils are equal when they are extreme. ~ ~ What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ~ ~ The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ~ ~ It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons. ~ ~ Evil is obvious only in retrospect. ~ ~ Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. ~ ~ Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating. ~ ~ Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection ~ ~ It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. ~ ~ For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ~ ~ It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life ~ ~ Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. ~ ~ Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~ ~ Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ~ ~ Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities. ~ ~ No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ~ ~ If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. ~ ~ Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ~ ~ Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. ~ ~ History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. ~ ~ Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. ~ ~ I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. ~ ~ To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. ~ |
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