By God, if women had written stories,
As clerks had within here oratories,
They would have written of men more wickedness
Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Tag: books gender men women evil storytelling inequality dishonesty wickedness
The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.
Augustine of HippoTag: freedom evil good slavery
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Alan MooreTag: evil apocalypse plot mastermind ozymandias
It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth.
David CecilTag: fanaticism evil religion faith fundamentalism good-intentions unintended-consequences crimes-against-humanity political-murder
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.
Jocelyn MurrayTag: evil noise scandal bad-news
white is not always light and black is not always dark.
Habeeb AkandeTag: evil good black stereotypes race-relations white misconceptions
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
Philip GourevitchTag: evil apathy indifference good action tolerance sentiment genocide holocaust talk sudan hitler rwanda west hollow auschewitz south-sudan
There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
David GemmellI sat back and looked at it. It was ugly, dark, uncontrolled. Like a monster's face. Or maybe what I saw there was my own face. I couldn't quite tell. Was the face the image of something evil or the image of myself?
"Both," Bea muttered, as if I'd spoken my question out loud. "Of course, it's both. But it shouldn't be. Goodness, no.
Tag: evil self-hatred painting monster self-portrait
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