#evils

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#archetypal #damages #evils #important #longer

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. ↗

— John Hay

#him #rarely #resists #seen #tyranny

Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good. ↗

— William Hurlbut

#amusing #angels #being #devils #good

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. ↗

— James Meade

#evils #great #mass #threat #two

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#evils #expand #freedom #i #me

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#delusions #evils #greatest #hope #legislation

The rare derpicus man is know to live near the himalayas, in a cave made purely of dead weevils. His native tounge is unknown, but what I've translated contains a grat amount of the words, "pootis, derp, poop, and nnnnyyyyaaaaannnn! ↗

— Medic

#funny #griffin #pootis #weevils #funny

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#devils #educate #make #men #religion

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#because #believe #call #demon #demons

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian ↗

— William J Federer

#barbarians #dual-meaning #evil #evil-men #evil-people