“The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.”
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Seven, Dependence And Economic Development, p. 304
“Undeserved forgiveness is unforgivable encouragement of evil.”
Speaking Out (2006)
“Yes, this is what is good: to forgive evil. There is no other good.”
Sí, eso es el bien: perdonar el mal. No hay etro bien.
Voces (1943)
“All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.”
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
“I still think its probably the most evil of all pursuits.”
On war.
Don Swaim interview (1975)
Context: I still think its probably the most evil of all pursuits.... the thing is when you're getting shot at you don't think so much about who's right and who's wrong or who's good and who's and bad... one of the first things they told you was "Forget about patriotism. That's not how you win a war. You win a war by being a vicious, merciless, mean, son-of-a-bitch." And, they try to infuse that in everybody, and I think rightly so.
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 4, lines 18-28 The Words of Jesus to the Giant Albion
"El mundo atribuye sus infortunios a las conspiraciones y maquinaciones de grandes malvados. Entiendo que se subestima la estupidez."
Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito, 1978.
Appearance and Reality, preface http://books.google.com/books?id=EtgtAAAAYAAJ&q=%22of+optimism+I+have+said+that+The+world+is+the+best+of+all+possible+worlds+and+everything+in+it+is+a+necessary+evil%22&pg=PR14#v=onepage (1893).
“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
