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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake…
— Benjamin Wiker
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I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon…
— Winston Churchill
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People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.
— Unknown Author
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind…
— C.S. Lewis
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Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.…
— Francois Fenelon
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
— Robertson Davies
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon…
— Euripides
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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in…
— Bertrand Russell
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One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What…
— Dorothy Day
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