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Evil
«If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.»
«If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Evil,
God,
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
blindness, extraordinary, investigated, investigates, investigating
«Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Evil,
Hope
| Keywords:
evils, Of Man, prolonging, prolongs, torment, tormenting, worst
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
accepts, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, helps, involved, passively, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, protested, protesting, protests
«I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with God.I know that He has no evil in Him, and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.»
«Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Cleverness,
Evil,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
accompanied, excessive, misfortune, training
«If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Evil,
God
| Keywords:
basically, turns, underachiever