T. S. Eliot Quotes, Evil Quotes, Wickedness Quotes

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.

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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Evil Quotes , Ends Quotes

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Evil Quotes , Secret Quotes