#evil

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#fiction #imagination #love #imagination

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#virtue #imagination

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#imagination

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang! ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#devil #irony #imagination

Possibility, or what we refer to as imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%. The problem is, this 1% is simultaneously referred to as Evil. ↗

— Kouhei Kadono

#imagination #possibility #imagination

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#evil #goodness #inspirational #love #sadness

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#future-inspirational #inspirational

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man? ↗

— William Styron

#evil #god #humanity #man #understanding

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ↗

— Scott Alexander

#cheating #dying #easy #evil #good

There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it. ↗

— Lasky Kathryn

#inspirational #inspirational