Quotes by Evil Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. Albert Schweitzer inspirational-life evil integrity Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life Albert Schweitzer evil O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace. Albert Schweitzer evil sleep father Evil requires no reason. Alberto Manguel no-reason evil reason An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity. Alberto Moravia evil heart hands If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. Albrecht Durer evil men art The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself. Aldous Huxley evil world thinking Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures. Aldous Huxley prohibition evil mind Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic. Aldous Huxley hypocrisy evil men For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world philosopher evil The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. Aldous Huxley would-be evil men Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Aldous Huxley necessary-evil chaos evil Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness. Aldous Huxley separateness unity evil Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied. Aldous Huxley evil It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction. Aldous Huxley addiction evil sex The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley vagueness evil doe The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other. Aleister Crowley unity passion evil An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil. Aleksandr Dugin important evil civilization In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spiritual evil integrity To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn rejection evil war «345678910111213»
