The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, Wilt not thou love me for myself alone? Yes, thou wilt love me… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“But why? Why did you do the evil things you did?' Billy asks suddenly. 'Ah, because I could not imagine consequences,' the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
It's no secret that the Democrat Party considers the American military to be the focus of evil in the modern world. So… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity,… — M. William Phelps Copy Share Image
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“There is no possible way for the average human mind to grasp it; the totality of the evil. It involves everyone; it… — Austin Dragon Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a "secret good" is held by a God… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure if he physically changes, or if he uses some kind of mind control to make you think he looks… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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