In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Why do so many—not all, but many—run to see a crashed plane, or a train, or two autos with numerous dead about?… — Harold Schechter Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror that men will not speak against it. That men… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But… — John Aylmer Copy Share Image
“So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self; and so terrible… — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The evil of aristocracy is not that it necessarily leads to the infliction of bad things or the suffering of sad ones;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white! You don't… — CJoybell C Copy Share Image
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is… — Ammon Hennacy 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
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 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
“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
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