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In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,… — David Hume
Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees… — Joseph Hall
Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good. — Unknown Author
Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the… — Theophan the Recluse
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The… — Noam Chomsky
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a… — Peter Kreeft
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil… — Saint Augustine
It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the… — Mother Teresa
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency… — Carl Jung
Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and… — Rich Hall
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and… — Saint Timothy
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an… — Rajneesh
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I… — Swami Vivekananda
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our… — Swami Vivekananda
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes… — Laozi
Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never… — Watchman Nee
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. — Thomas a Kempis
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children… — Mark Skousen
Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that protection is available… — Paul Starr
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain… — Karl Popper
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke

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