The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: art happiness pain evil artists
My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a 'believer' in orthodox religion, but had strong questions which were encouraged at Harvard. In Germany I became a freethinker and when I came to teach at an orthodox Methodist Negro school I was soon regarded with suspicion, especially when I refused to lead the students in public prayer. When I became head of a department at Atlanta, the engagement was held up because again I balked at leading in prayer. I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war. I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools.
W.E.B. Du BoisTags: questions morals evil war civilization atheist creed freethinker exploitation slavery rebel clergy germany atlanta deacon harvard orthodox orthodox-religion public-prayer public-school puritanic soviet-union ussr
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
Octave MirbeauTags: philosophy evil human-nature
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Martin LutherTags: devil evil christianity religion
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalTags: evil religious-conviction
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…
Jim MorrisonTags: evil sun indulgence strangeness wild-west
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 EinsteinTags: world people evil dangerous
The greater evil who is in-
When both in wayward paths are straying?
The poor sinner for the pain
Or he who pays for the sin?
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
T.S. EliotTags: morality evil good-intentions
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
Jim ButcherTags: humor morality evil good good-and-evil
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