T Quotes
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“The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.”
“The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.”
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
“The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism”
“The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?”
“The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.”
Source: David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events
“The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.”
Source: Emma
“The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.”
“The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.”
“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The evil of what had been done to Crane and the choices he'd made because of it were living inside him, just like I'd have to carry around forever everything I'd survived and done. That's the way it was, I was realizing. Every person carried some bad, and we all had some good. Our job was to figure out how to let only the good stuff steer.”
Source: Litani
“The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.”
“The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
[Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]”
“The evil power of fake currency is that it brings the original currency under suspicion and forces it to prove itself at every step.”
“The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“The evil rising up from him; pouring off him in waves. It is like the foul stench of rotting meat, but it isn’t just a scent. This runs soul deep. The hairs on my arms are standing on end just being this close to him.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
“The evil should end one for all.”
“The evil stepmother is a fixture in European fairy tales because the stepmother was very much a fixture in early European society–mortality in childbirth was very high, and it wasn’t unusual for a father to suddenly find himself alone with multiple mouths to feed. So he remarried and brought another woman into the house, and eventually they had yet more children, thus changing the power dynamics of inheritance in the household in a way that had very little to do with inherent, archetypal evil and everything to do with social expectation and pressure. What was a woman to do when she remarried into a family and had to act as mother to her husband’s children as well as her own, in a time when economic prosperity was a magical dream for most? Would she think of killing her husband’s children so that her own children might therefore inherit and thrive? [...] Perhaps. Perhaps not. But the fear that stepmothers (or stepfathers) might do this kind of thing was very real, and it was that fear–fed by the socioeconomic pressures felt by the growing urban class–that fed the stories.
We see this also with the stories passed around in France–fairies who swoop in to save the day when women themselves can’t do so; romantic tales of young girls who marry beasts as a balm to those young ladies facing arranged marriages to older, distant dukes. We see this with the removal of fairies and insertion of religion into the German tales. Fairy tales, in short, are not created in a vacuum. As with all stories, they change and bend both with and in response to culture.”
Source: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
“The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
“The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds...for sluggards cannot think, and will not...Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass...make us see.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;”
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.”
“the evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that however isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;”
Source: The Plague
“The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.”
“The evil that we know is best.”
Source: The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton
“the evil the u are the brighter u will get”
“the evil thing is inside, not out.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.”
Source: Prussianism and Its Destruction: With which is Reprinted Part II. of
“The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over.”
Source: The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
“The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.”
“The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.”
“The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“The "evil" which he had made his refuge vanished when crime was justified by virtue.”
Source: Must We Burn Sade?
“The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.”
“The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector”
Source: Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“The evil you do to others you may expect in return.”
“The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians, against their will, under color of law, are driven from their homes into the wilderness. You cannot explain it; you cannot reason it away. . . . Our friends will view this measure with sorrow, and our enemies alone with joy. And we ourselves, Sir, when the interests and passions of the day are past, shall look back upon it, I fear, with self-reproach, and a regret as bitter as unavailing.”
“The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.”
Source: The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.”
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
“The evils of life spring partly from natural causes, partly from men’s hostility to each other. In former times, competition and war were necessary for the securing of food, which could only be obtained by the victors. Now, owing to the mastery of natural forces which science has begun to give, there would be more comfort and happiness for all if all devoted themselves to the conquest of Nature rather than of each other. The representation of Nature as a friend, and sometimes as even an ally in our struggles with other men, obscures the true position of man in the world, and diverts his energies from the pursuit of scientific power, which is the only fight that can bring long-continued well-being to the human race.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.”
“The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.”
“The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.”
“The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.”
Source: Castilian Days
“The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.”
“The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution