“Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.”
Source: The Thief of Always
“There is no inspiration in evil and no power except for its own destruction.”
The Secret of Efficient Expression (1911)
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Part 2, Chapter 14, “The Third Letter of the Alphabet” (pp. 259-260).
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“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.”
Simone Weil
(1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
René Descartes
(1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Sri Aurobindo
(1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
"Kurukshetra" in Essays on the Gita (1995), p. 39
Context: Even soul-force, when it is effective, destroys. Only those who have used it with eyes open, know how much more destructive it can be than the sword and the cannon; and only those who do not limit their view to the act and its immediate results, can see how tremendous are its after-effects, how much is eventually destroyed and with that much all the life that depended upon it and fed upon it. Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence.
Enrico Fermi
(1901–1954) Italian physicist
On the Hydrogen bomb in a minority addendum http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/GACReport491030.html (co-authored with I. I. Rabi) to an official General Advisory Committee report for the Atomic Energy Commission (30 October 1949)
Context: Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide. It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country... The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.
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Confessions (c. 397)
“The secret of joy is: To know the world and its evil powers … and still preserve the hope.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu
(1957) Indian philosopher
Joy: Share it! p.54.
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