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If
it were easier to choose to do the right thing, wouldn't
people be more likely to do it?
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
Maybe peace on earth is an impossible dream, but if
we changed the rules, this world could be so much better.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
If
it were easier to choose to do the right thing, wouldn't
people be more likely to do it? Maybe peace on earth
is an impossible dream, but if we changed the rules,
this world could be so much better. So, why do we allow
an unfair system to rule us by fear? Why don't we work
together to create a better world and bring hope!
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
Let
us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes
to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace.
War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but
on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are
frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing
themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies
pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that
they are right.
-- Norman
Angell
*
The
sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never
make up their minds to be either good or evil.
-- Hannah
Arendt
Fear
is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
-- Aristotle
Nobody
is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure
in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
-- James
Baldwin
The
humblest individual exerts some influence, either for
good or evil, upon others.
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
When
good people in any country cease their vigilance and
struggle, then evil men prevail.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
Race
prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is
a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over
those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to
go on.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
War
may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how
necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will
not learn how to live together in peace by killing each
other's children.
-- Jimmy
Carter
*The
exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom
of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread
and racial discrimination -- all these evils are far
too prevalent to be overlooked.
-- René
Samuel Cassin
"The
world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the
people who are evil, but because of the people who don't
do anything about it." -- Albert
Einstein
"This
crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of
capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from
this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated
into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive
success as a preparation for his future. I am convinced
there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils,
namely through the establishment of a socialist economy,
accompanied by an educational system which would be
oriented toward social goals."
-- Albert
Einstein
I
do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and
punishes evil.
-- Albert
Einstein
The
meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply
helping or hurting.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"I
object to violence because when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Non-cooperation
with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Capital
as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Man's
nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know
to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair
of human nature. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
*
"The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human
being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more
evil than murder... Today we know that survivors of
torture can be helped to regain their health and strength,
and in helping them we take the weapon from their torturers.
They sought the destruction of other human beings. We
have proved that they have not succeeded."
-- Inge
Genefke
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human
stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and
justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism
and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political
idols.
~ Aldous
Huxley
I
believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And
that no one knows the truth. -- Molly
Ivins
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions
of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the
dawn of day.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
By
a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate
freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of
commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all
cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing
armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no
honest government should decline.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Science
may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found
no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of
human beings.
-- Helen
Keller
*
I
believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is
evil.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
What
is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists,
is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
The evil is not what they say about their cause, but
what they say about their opponents.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in
it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts
evil without protesting against it is really cooperating
with it.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
I
believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will
have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily
defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
“I
became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as
much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.” --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
We must
develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid
of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There
is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best
of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our
enemies. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
Have we
not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must
love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate
begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken,
or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"The principle
of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of
two opposites - acquiescence and violence - while avoiding
the extremes and immoralities of both. The nonviolent resister
agress with the person who acquisces that one should not be
physically agressive toward his opponent; but he balances
the equation by agreeing with the person of violence that
evil must be resisted. He avoids the nonresistance of the
former and the violent resistance of the latter. With nonviolent
resistance, no invidual or group need to submit to any wrong,
nor need anyone resort to violence in order to right a wrong."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
In our
struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama,
I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's
method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the
best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom
and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach
will bring about a solution to the race problem in America.
His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that
it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
That
is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis
of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and
faith and peace and freedom.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
*
“Let
us not become the evil that we deplore.”
-- Barbara
Lee
The
dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human
actions than the prospect of good.
-- John
Locke
I
see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just
evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to
make life unlivable on this planet.
--
Bernard
Lown
We
frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good
and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change
will only come about when each of us takes up the daily
struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate,
loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by
some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us
can change too.
-- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire
*
Massive
poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges
of our times -- times in which the world boasts breathtaking
advances in science, technology, industry and wealth
accumulation -- that they have to rank alongside slavery
and apartheid as social evils.
-- Nelson
Mandela
“Conquer
the devils with a little thing called love!”
-- Bob
Marley
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
-- Margaret
Mead
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions
but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly
accountable to them for the injury.
-- John
Stuart Mill
The
task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does
not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
-– Maria
Montessori
*
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation
of violence and the development of nonviolent means
to combat evil and advance the good.
-- A.
J. Muste
A
long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial
appearance of being right.
-- Thomas
Paine.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change
of heart in one solitary and even humble individual
- for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual
that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately
won or lost.
-- M.
Scott Peck
I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view
of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full
of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to
love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs,
and their dreams.
-- Sean
Penn
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever
do Evil, that Good may come of it.
-- William
Penn
*
"This
is the way of peace:
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth,
and hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
*
"This
is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood
with truth, and hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
To prefer
evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled
to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater
when he might have the less.
- Plato
Knowledge
becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- Plato
In
order more deeply to affect the minds of the citizens
of the United States with the blessings of peace, by contrasting
them with the evils of war, let the following inscriptions
be painted upon the sign which is placed over the door
of the War Office: 1. An office for butchering the human
species. 2. A Widow and Orphan making office. 3. A broken
bone making office. 4. A Wooden leg making office. 5.
An office for the creating of public and private vices.
6. An office for creating a public debt. 7. An office
for creating speculators, stock Jobbers, and Bankrupts.
8. An office for creating famine. 9. An office for creating
pestilential diseases. 10. An office for creating poverty,
and the destruction of liberty, and national happiness.
-- Benjamin
Rush
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know
the facts are more likely to achieve good than those
who view the world through the distorting medium of
their own desires. -- Bertrand
Russell
*
"The
greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
False
words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
soul with evil.
- Socrates
One who
is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account
can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to
return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we
have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as
those who steal from the public purse.
-- Adlai
Stevenson
We
don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace
- just get together, love one another, bring that peace,
that joy, that strength of presence of each other in
the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil
that is in the world.
-- Mother
Teresa
There
are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one
who is striking at the root.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
The
lack of money is the root of all evil.
-- Mark
Twain
*
"Nonviolence
is the answer for the questions of our time. Love will
conquer evil every time."
-- James
Twyman
If money
help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but
if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is
got rid of, the better.
- Swami Vivekananda
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil,
but as a necessity, even a duty.
-- Simone
Weil
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
-- Elie
Wiesel
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes
it for happiness, the good he seeks.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft
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