The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil.
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
There is no sense in meddling with the extinction of polar bears, not when so many more pressing human problems await. Until there's ironclad proof of how and why extinction works, and how much evil we've done to hasten it along, I'm going to save my emotional anguish for dying and suffering members of my own species.
Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.
