The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
It remains the case that on any objective analysis the prospects for a settlement are good, and we have to work towards that with renewed vigor and determination. Democracy must defeat evil.
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at men who live in these degenerate days, which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.
Has there not come to you the story of those who disbelieved before, then tasted the evil result of their conduct, and they had a painful punishment That is because there came to them their apostles with clear arguments, but they said Shall mortals guide us So they disbelieved and turned back, and Allah does not stand in need (of anything), and Allah is Self-sufficient, Praised.
How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
The greatest of all evil is the weak government.
With the mind encircled by wickedness and evil, people do evil deeds.
And therefore the Philosopher Aristotle says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
If I said, 'My goodness, that's a big help,' it suggests that we plan to go use them. And that is a decision the president has not made,
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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