Our number one priority is battling discrimination against Arab-Americans, and changing the stereotypes, letting people know we're not terrorists, we're not all evil. We're human beings just like you.
Our number one priority is battling discrimination against Arab-Americans, and changing the stereotypes, letting people know we're not terrorists, we're not all evil. We're human beings just like you.
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
The pictures are designed to portray human emotions, good and evil, fine and tawdry and it is no wonder that their appeal is so universal.
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
When indignation takes possession of his mind and it is easily excited his disposition becomes malevolent. He hates with the bitterest contempt. But as soon as he has indulged those feelings, he regains the humanity which he had lost from the immediate impulse of provocation and repents deeply. So that his mind is continually making the most sudden transitions from good to evil, from evil to good. A state of such perpetual tumult must be attended with the misery of restless inconsistency. He laments his want of tranquillity and speaks of the power of application to composing studies, as a blessing placed beyond his attainment, which he regrets.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it God does not change it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good not sorrow, but joy not hate, but love.
Everything evil is revenge.
Fear is a greater evil than the evil itself.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wiseThou ever-bubbling spring of endless liesLike Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
Evil is only good perverted.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Your breath comes to its end, O my merchant friend, and your shoulders are weighed down by the tyrant of old age. Not one iota of virtue came into you, O my merchant friend bound and gagged by evil, you are driven along.
This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
Communists, preach the supremacy of the state and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world...
Having to choose between goodness and beauty is a false dichotomy.
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
The union people, out of the goodness of their hearts, said this was something they could do. Most of this is from people that don't even know Danelle.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Evil comes at leisure like the disease good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Congratulations to the Islamic nation, to our sheikh Osama abu Abdullah ( Osama bin Laden ), to our emir Mullah Mohammad Omar, to sheikh Ayman Zawahiri (bin Laden's deputy)... for the destruction of America, which is at the forefront of evil.
On Iran, I thought he was quite good and positive ... I think our policy toward Iran makes sense, it includes the Europeans, the International Atomic Energy Agency, it includes diplomacy, the right to say we're going to defend Israel. I was pleased to see it wasn't mixed up in some of that 'axis of evil' stuff he sometimes says.
As soon as you whip yourself but shaking your head and feeling sorry for yourself, you're a whipped pup. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. Guys on the other team love seeing that. They love to see you shake your head and say, 'Oh my goodness, now what am I going to do'
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
Truth does not do so much good in the world, As the appearance of it does evil.
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a 'necessary evil,' it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love....
We must not be frightened nor cajoledinto accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,though monsters of abstractionspolice and threaten us.
What is evil Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
A warrior doesnt know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate ones acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Your blessed gathering here is a challenge to the forces of evil and tyranny that want to destroy this country.
And if you wish to have (one) wife in place of another and you have given one of them a heap of gold, then take not from it anything would you take it by slandering (her) and (doing her) manifest wrong And how can you take it when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have made with you a firm covenant And marry not woman whom your fathers married, except what has already passed this surely is indecent and hateful, and it is an evil way.
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