"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."
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"Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State."
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"The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting."
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"If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good."
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"To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed."
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"Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us."
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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes."
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"For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."
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"One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them."
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"To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'"
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"If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion."
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"Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words."
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"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."
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"The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector"
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"When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil."
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"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."
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""I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.""
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"A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good."
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"To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss."
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"Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing."
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