“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.” WellsMayEvilInterestPrinciplesWatchesVirtueSocietyProduceIntegrityAimInstitutionsCorruptionTendenciesAgentsAgencyProductiveGoverning Author:James F. Cooper
“The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.” PeopleWayRealEvilAttitudeTechnologyObjectsProduceLonelyTendenciesObjectivity Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.” MeanPersonsEvilPoorProduceBalancePropertyTendenciesEmploymentServantRemedyConsumptionDisturbanceWorkmenLandlord Author:Thomas Malthus
“sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.” ChildrenSometimesParentVirtueProduceOppositesFaultsTendencies Book:Works Source: Works