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“Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.”

Reality Order Universe Evil Existence One Thing Source Succeed Elements Lows Permanence Continuation

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.”

Long Evil Simple Existence Elements

Book:The Politics of Aristotle

Source: The Politics of Aristotle

“In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.”

Ifs Men Firsts Enough Evil Natural Company Higher Elements Productions Oil Buying Throwing Quantity Speculation Tanks Storage Knocked Down Fluctuation Speculators Natural Elements Buying In

Author:Ida Tarbell

“There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.”

Two Reason Evil Elements Concern Infinite Productions Discussion Consideration Continuity Labyrinth

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just because there is no logical place for it, no room in reality for it. It is unreal, and yet real as something unreal.”

Real Reality Evil Found Rooms Existence Elements Universal Logical Unreal

Author:Laura Riding

“We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.”

“Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.”

Men Should Evil Elements Apprehension Dissolution

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights and especially that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient.”

People Believe May Government Evil Rights Citizens Republican Elements Mass Election Agents Ingredients Composition Egoism

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“I would that the healing power of Christ might spread over the earth and be diffused through our society and into our homes, that it might cure men's hearts of the evil and adverse elements of greed and hate and conflict. I believe it could happen. I believe it must happen. If the lamb is to lie down with the lion, then peace must overcome conflict, healing must mend injury.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart Home Might Happens Earth Lying Hate Evil I Believe Christ Healing Conflict Elements Overcoming Greed Spread Cures Injury Our Society Lions Lambs Adverse

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.”

Humans Evil Causes Human Beings Development Elements Roots Autonomy Root Cause

Author:Arno Gruen

“Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!”

States Problem Together Evil Terrible Elements Unions Impossibility Unnatural Civilisation

Author:Rosa Campbell Praed

“When I did The Fifth Element [1997], it was like, "Oh my goodness, who is this character?" I loved doing Resident Evil, but Resident Evil is Resident Evil with or without me. It's an entity of its own. It's not like Milla made Resident Evil.”

Made Character Evil Goodness Elements Entity Fifth Residents Fifth Element Resident Evil

Author:Milla Jovovich

“There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Kind Matter Reason Evil Views Principles Goodness Elements Highest Negative Stronger Unity Theology Surprising Say Anything Controversial

Author:Peter Adamson

“I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.”

Spirit Evil Term Sin Elements Deserve Destruction Mephistopheles

Book:Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two

Source: Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two