Doubt Quote by Richard Hofstadter Download Open image “To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....” — Richard Hofstadter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doubt Evil Kind Luxury Simple Unqualified
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To be evil is to suffer incredulity of your person who is faceted by the non-effects of a responsive behavior. — Isaac Thomas Copy Share Image
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed. The” — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“The truly creative mind is hardly ever so much alone as when it is trying to be sociable. The” — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts— so what? ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
