“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 5, First Weeks on the Island.
“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 5, First Weeks on the Island.
"Take Heed that Ye Love not Human Glory in any Respect," A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 11, p. 66
“To overdraw its evil is a simple impossibility”
Livingstone While talking about the slave trade in East Africa in his journals.
“I’ve never seen a religion that wasn’t basically evil.”
Source: Master of Space and Time (1984), Chapter 10, “God’s Laws” (p. 72)
“Even the devils love their own kind and, they cannot be evil to themselves.”
“Good and evil are one. Just like a coin, the head and the tail.”
A Treatise on 1 Corinthians 15.28 https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/in-illud-tunc-et-ipse-filius/
Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore (1985), Chapter 2 (p. 45)
“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 424, (1907, 12 February)
Early career years (1898–1929)
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Source: An Urchin in the Storm (1987) "Utopia, Limited", p. 218
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
Source: The Roman Empire (1967), p. 191
Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish
Source: Source https://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/11121999/prilozi.htm (1999)
“No evil can be excused because it is done with a good intention.”
Original: (la) Nullum malum bona intentione factum excusatur.
Variant: Variant translation: An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention.
Source: On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273)
Source: Responsible Servants https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/responsible-servants-arulselvam-rayappan-sermon-on-parable-general-77029 (7 March 2005)
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Kayleigh McEnany Falsely Claims All The ‘Main Founding Fathers’ Opposed Slavery
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayleigh-mcenany-false-slavery-claim_n_60e4986ae4b06fb1a6f0128d
Source: "The Father's Love for Persons" https://www.google.com/books/edition/Select_Discourses_and_Essays/loYfAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22I+am+a+living+member+of+the+great+Family+of+All+Souls%22&pg=PA343&printsec=frontcover, in Selected Discourses and Essays from the works of William Ellery Channing, DD (1895)
Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, Eliphas Levi, Translated by W. Wynn Westcott, London, George Redway, 1896, p. 51.
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 120
Athenäum (1798 - 1800)
Source: “Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #31
“Evil is thou', and the worst evil is thou', which thou knowest it not.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
“Idleness is the open field of perdition, well tilled and sown with evil thoughts.”
Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. VI.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
Source: Speech at Kansas State University (11 March 1996)
Source: The Externalization of the Hierarchy (1957) p. 668
Source: Ask the Attorney: An Interview with Former Kansas Attorney General and Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline http://lifelegalgiving.com/ask-the-attorney-an-interview-with-former-kansas-attorney-general-and-johnson-county-district-attorney-phill-kline/ (1 August 2009)
Source: Irfan-e-Ilahi, Anwar-ul-Ulum, Vol. 4, p. 371
Source: Rectorial address ("The present decline of Parliamentary government in Great Britain") to Edinburgh University (5 March 1931), quoted in The Times (6 March 1931), p. 19
"All They Wanted to Say" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "All They Wanted to Say" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeaqKqed6V4 (song on YouTube)
Books on Religion and Christianity, I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)
Source: Michel Henry, I am the Truth. Toward a Philosophy of Christianity, translated by Susan Emanuel, Stanford University Press, 2003, p. 9
"Pacifism and Class War" in The Essays of A. J. Muste (1967) edited by Nat Hentoff p. 179-85; also quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.
"Why Animal Experiments Must Stop" (1991), in animalliberationfront.com http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Animal%20Testing/Vivisection/waems.htm.
“Language is an evil thing, a very evil thing. And a force to be reckoned with.”
As quoted in The Guardian (19 March 2005)
Evil is a force in the universe, a force using any weakness it finds to do its dirt; and with Evil, Hell is just a sideline.
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 134
Letter 55
Monastic Wisdom (2016)
“There is no greater social evil than religion. It is the cancer in the body of humanity.”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 9, “Evil” (p. 34)
““Evil” is first and foremost a religious notion. It means whatever a religion dislikes.”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 9, “Evil” (p. 33)
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity
Unsourced
#671: April 13, 2022 https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/671-april-13-2022(Knowledge Fight April 13th, 2022)
Source: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), p. 24
1950s, The Birth of a New Nation (1957)
“Happy are they who know not the taste of evil.”
Source: Antigone, Line 583 (Ode II)
The Walk Humbly Podcast - Episode 39: Protecting children online, priority of abortion, homelessness pilot project, and more! https://www.arlingtondiocese.org/bishop/walk-humbly-podcast/the-walk-humbly-podcast---episode-39/ (18 November 2019)
Vatican should talk to China — but not at any price https://www.ucanews.com/amp/vatican-should-talk-to-china-but-not-at-any-price/93985 (1 October 2021)
26 March 1940, Speech at St. John Ambulance Association and Indian Red Cross Society, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 241
“Mere abstention from a life of evil does not constitute a life devoted to good works.”
Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 3, “The Monster-Guarded Gate” (p. 25)
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.
“Sometimes, the worst evil wear love.”
Original: A volte, il male peggiore indossa l'amore.
Source: prevale.net
“Never compete with who come from hell, he knows evil better than you.”
Original: Non competere mai con chi viene dall'inferno, conosce il male meglio di te.
Source: prevale.net
“Attention! Evil always knows the road back.”
Original: Attenzione! Il male conosce sempre la strada del ritorno.
Source: prevale.net
“For a good future, it is essential to live the present by killing the evil of the past.”
Original: Per un buon futuro, è essenziale vivere il presente uccidendo il male del passato.
Source: prevale.net