Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.
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You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
