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Fri 1 Feb 2019

Good and evil

Posted by PJ under evil, good, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 154 (tr. Helen Zimmern)

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Mon 30 Jan 2017

Ignorant evil

Posted by PJ under evil, good intentions, ignorance, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”

—Albert Camus, The Plague (tr. Stuart Gilbert)

 

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Fri 23 Oct 2015

Evilly evil

Posted by PJ under evil, good, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“All the concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”

—Sophocles, The Sons of Aleus, Fragment 77 (tr. Loeb Classical Library)

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Tue 1 Apr 2014

Yourself

Posted by PJ under eccentricity, evil, individuality, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day: 

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.”

—Joseph Brodsky, “A College Commencement Address,” Less Than One: Selected Essays

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Thu 22 Aug 2013

The good one

Posted by PJ under evil, good, quote of the day
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“Evil isn’t particular about its personnel. She didn’t think it worked the same way for the good guys. Only one Lincoln, only one Gandhi.”

—Laura Lippman, In A Strange City

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Thu 30 Aug 2012

Personification

Posted by PJ under evil, fiction, good, writing
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“Nothing is so beautiful and wonderful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy, as the good. No desert is so dreary, monotonous, and boring as evil. This is the truth about authentic good and evil. With fictional good and evil it is the other way round.  Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied and intriguing, attractive, profound, and full of charm.”

—Simone Weil, Morality and Literature

 

 


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Fri 13 Jul 2012

Evil minds

Posted by PJ under conscience, evil, quote of the day
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“Evil people are not dumb.  They simply use the power of their mind to cut off their conscience.”

—General Romeo Dallaire, quoted by Scott Simon, “Evil in Mumbai,” National Public Radio, Nov. 29, 2008

 


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Fri 1 Jun 2012

Wickedness

Posted by PJ under evil, quote of the day
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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

—Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

 

 


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Fri 1 Jul 2011

Borrrrrr-ing

Posted by PJ under boredom, evil, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Boredom is the root of all evil—the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

—Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

 

 

I couldn’t really verify this quote. It’s widely propagated on the interdweebs and is probably a corruption or an alternate translation of something that appeared in the essay “Crop Rotation” (or, alternately translated, “Rotation of Crops”) in Kierkegaard’s book, Either/Or. I think this one is pithier than the quote I could verify: “Boredom is the root of evil; it is that which must be held off.” I can never resist a good pith, so I decided to use the one above.

(Thanks to handworn for calling my attention to this quote.)

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Thu 14 Apr 2011

An offer you can’t refuse

Posted by PJ under angels, evil, good, quote of the day
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“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil.  The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.  If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

 

 

 

 

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