“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.”
The City and Man, p. 5 (1964)
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“A worthy man is bound to suffer malice and envy: a man grows in worth so long as he is envied.”
Hazzen unde nîden
daz muoz der biderbe lîden.
der man der werdet al die vrist,
die wîle und er geniten ist.
Source: Tristan, Line 8395
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Context: And why be scandalized by the infallibility of a man, of the Pope? What difference does it make whether it be a book that is infallible — the Bible, or a society of men — the Church, or a single man? Does it make any essential change in the rational difficulty? And since the infallibility of a book or of a society of men is not more rational than that of a single man, this supreme offense to the eyes of reason has to be postulated.
“The evils of society cannot be remedied by acts of parliament.”
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Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 98, Vol. 2
Warren E. Burger
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Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
(1485–1540) English statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII of England
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“Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.”
Peter F. Drucker
(1909–2005) American business consultant
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