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«Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.»
«But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself»
«Conquer the devils with a little thing called love!»
«Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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Dreams,
Evil,
Revolution,
Soul
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accordance, eager, lurks, mystics, propose, proposing, refashion, revolutionaries, The Shadow, Utopia, Utopias
«Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil»
«Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't»
«Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good»
«Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Boredom,
Evil,
Philosophy,
Self-Awareness
«Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man»
«But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil»
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