“The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?” IfsWorldDoeAbleEvilWillingAtheistRemoveBenevolentOmnipotent Author:Epicurus
“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.” ThinkingGivingHumansMeanEvilHuman NatureGreatnessWillingReadyGoodnessEarsWelcomeJealousyReportsCalumnyCalumny Is Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.” KnowsMenHumansProblemLife IsDiesFightingEvilJusticePerfectHalfWillingSolutionsAbsolutesFinalsAffairToleranceCompromiseManifestationRejectionEtcGood LifeImperfectionInherentEquityNihilismNot PerfectFree ManLoatheInsistenceApproximationHuman ProblemsLesser EvilJustice EqualityHalf Measures Author:Eric Hoffer
“The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.” PeopleFeelsFactsGovernmentPassionEvilNamesResultsCommonSubjectsWillingDemandAuthorityAssumingNobleVanitySubmitOppressedGraspingFlatteredMob Rule Author:Polybius
“If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?” IfsDoeAbleEvilPowerfulWillingRemoveBenevolent Author:Epicurus
“Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, preaching); but if they are not undertaken in a spirit of complete reliance upon the Holy Spirit, then the flesh is the source of all. The old creation is willing to do anything-even to submit to God - if only it is permitted to live and to be active.” IfsMayDoneFactsSpiritEvilReadingCreationWillingSourcePrayingHolyActiveBe GoodFleshHoly SpiritSubmitPreachingGodlyRelianceThings DoneReading The Bible Book:Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” GodAbleSpiritualScienceReligionEvilReligiousAtheismWillingAtheistParadoxSkepticismSecularAgnosticDeitiesSkepticalThere Is No GodAgnosticismParadoxicalGod ExistsOmnipotentOmnipotenceIf There Is A GodReligion GodAncient GreekFounding Fathers Anti ReligionTheistFounding Fathers AtheistAnti ReligiousThere Being No GodGod Is AbleNon BelieverMalevolenceReligion In SocietyGod Is Not GreatAnti GodEpicureanismProof That God ExistsSubtle AtheistProof God ExistsProblem Of EvilEpicureanChristian WorldviewEvil GodCriticism Of Religion Author:Epicurus
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” PeopleIfsHumansHeartWisdomEvilFunPeaceLinesHuman BeingsSimplePiecesCuttingHumilityWillingDeedsGood And EvilDividingEvil PeopleNecessary EvilGulags Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn