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“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.”

Evil Fear Ability Roots Stupidity Ridiculous Mortals Vain Hiding Hiding Place

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.”

Ifs Evil Ability Money Capitalism Prosperity Refuse Apologizing Wise Women Successful Women Not Sorry

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.”

Men Giving Doe Evil Born Ability Brain Birth Equal Men And Women Injustice Deny Stealing Inequality Fairy Unjust Womb Born Free

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.”

“The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.”

Evil Ability Essentials Core Grandeur Ability To Choose

Author:William P. Young

“Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.”

Able Evil Ability Possibility Ability To Choose

Book:The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

Source: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.”

Evil Ability Business Conditions Produce Ignorance Roots Extremes Vanity Heartache Characteristics Egoism Shipwreck Overconfidence

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall