“ A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. ”
- Emily Bronte- Copy
“ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
“ Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
“ When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
“ As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. ”
- Christopher Dawson- Copy
“ It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ”
- Aung San Suu Kyi- Copy
“ There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
“ The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. ”
- Ludwig Mises- Copy
“ Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. ”
- Frances Farmer- Copy
“ There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. ”
- Alan Dean Foster- Copy
“ When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ”
- Confucius- Copy
“ For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
“ Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way — by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. ”
- Juliene Berk- Copy
“ Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile. ”
- Confucius- Copy
“ Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
“ If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
“ There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else… ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
“ Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
“ For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood and one in blood established; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughtered those that were the means to help him; A base foul stone, made precious by the foil Of England's chair, where he is falsely set; One that hath ever been God's enemy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ The bottom line is that doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ”
- Tom Robbins- Copy
“ Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. ”
- Adam Smith- Copy
“ It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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