Best limits & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.”

Knows Order Evil Winning Know How Virtue Limits True Meaning Good Evil Life Has No Meaning

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.”

Persons Soul Helping Desire Universe Evil Given Causes Imagine Limits Aim Property Errors Ignorant Insufficient

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.”

Men Evil Habit Limits Spread

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.”

Whole Body Evil Personality Limits Your Body Forbidden Tempting

Author:Valerie Bertinelli

“The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.”

World Soul Evil Gone Path Morality Limits Redemption Good And Evil Traveler

Book:Fear of Freedom: With the Essay,

Source: Fear of Freedom: With the Essay,

“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.”

Thinking Should Reason Reality Desire Evil Causes Sacrifice Bears Limits Consequence Should Have Refusal Evil Thoughts

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Can our culture be reclaimed? How can we stay free in the next century? While people of other countries have been restricted m to pursue prosperity, bounded only by the limits of his or her imagination. Besides, only a conservative would ask how we can STAY prosperous and free in the 21st century. A liberal would whine that only a few are prosperous-the evil rich who have somehow gotten rich off the backs of the poor.”

People Has Beens Country Culture Evil Next Asks Imagination Poor Rich Century Limits Conservative Prosperity Pursue Other Countries 21st Century Prosperous

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.”

People Hands Age Used Hate Evil Force Sex Psychology Century Limits Release Tyrants Mechanism Forbidden Breeding Scapegoat Sadism Cathartic

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.”

Thinking Men World Helping Life Is Values Evil Goal This World Morality Limits Highest Related

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.”

Writing Book Evil Names Limits Gains Raises Mere Sake Vanity Acquire Multitudes Fever Raise Up

Author:Martin Luther

“I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?”

Thinking Humans May Mean Doe Evil Understanding Term Brain Limits Concepts Complexity Good And Evil Neuroscience Human Brain

Author:Francis Collins

“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .”

Ifs Thinking World Mind Soul Enough Body Pain Turns Evil Imagination Attitude Path This World Goes On Limits Bitter Bitterness Serenity Tranquility Everlasting Cucumbers Briars

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.”

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.”

Men Want Kind War Reason Hate Fighting Evil Sides Imagine Limits Every Man All Kinds Plenty Attractive Imagine That Almighty Ugliness Reservations Imbeciles Mother Night Vilify

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.”

World States Facts Government Lasts Humanity Choices Evil Principles Greater Modern Reader Limits Capacity Presses Newspapers Modern World Dregs Clearness Degeneration

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Feels Humans Suffering Evil Human Beings Limits Concern Responsible Guilty Indifference Free Society

Book:No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue

Source: No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue

“There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling—terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits—or if she has any, she hasn’t found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.”

Ifs Men Needs Persons Made Done Mother Evil Found Deals Known Terrible Mets Limits Men And Women Difficulty Terrible Things Drank Reconcile Evil Man

Book:Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.”

People Ifs Should Looks War Government Evil Ability Limits Constitution Libertarian Guarantees Libertarianism Rights And Freedoms Personal Freedom Personal Liberty

Author:William J. Clinton

“The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.”

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