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“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.”

Men Needs Evil Perfection Optimism Essence Species Selfishness Contradiction Good And Evil Imperfection Altruism Affirmation Blazing Negation Fatalism

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

“Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.”

Persons Christian Evil Chance Essence Remains Illness Despite Orthodox Misfortunes God Image Reverie Devilish Disfigurement

Author:John of Kronstadt

“...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.”

Government Evil Lost Citizens Essence Assuming Population Anticipate Evil Government

Author:Philip K. Dick

“If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.”

Ifs World Humans Mean Would Be Evil Human Beings Planets Essence Destroyed Remove Our World Robots Humanness

Book:Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions

Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions

“The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.”

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Author:Dennis Prager

“What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.”

Way Joy Evil Broken Glory Essence Misery Meant To Be Fountain Everlasting Another Way Exalted Mock Were Meant To Be Derision

Author:John Piper

“Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.”

Source: The Classic Horror Stories

“When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.”

Believe Mean Persons Doe Evil Depression Essence Destructive Shrinks Foul Rejecting Depressed Person

Book:Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

Source: Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

“Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.”

Body Evil Grows Dying Morality Consequence Essence Function Strive Spread Good And Evil Exploitation Will Power Immorality Good Evil Beyond Good And Evil

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.”

Humans Looks Use Light Moving Life Is Evil Literature Morality Essence Human Life Opposition Good And Evil Questioning

Author:Georges Bataille

“The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”

Ends Government Used Evil Force Essence Accomplish Anarchy Heresy

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.”

Evil Essence Conquer Opponents

Author:Yagyu Munenori

“Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.”

Men World Humans Real Evil Human Beings Lord Darkness Imagine Poet Capacity Essence Nuclear Posts Inability Captured Nobel Starks Byron

Author:Bernard Lown