#evil

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#also #desired #evil #former #good

Where liberty dies, evil grows. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#evil #grows #liberty #where

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#bob #conquer #evil #fight #generally

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#here #his #ignorance #immorality #legion

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. ↗

— Danny Kaye

#bet #broadway #clubs #few #hundred

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#century #cold #cold war #communism #democracy

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#been #confess #evil #far #good

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. ↗

— Milos Forman

#because #censorship #character #control #destroys

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#evils #look #money #rather #tempts