Walter Rauschenbusch Quotes
The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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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 think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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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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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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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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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 believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
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For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don’t even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he’s worthy of even considering it, and I just don’t see that happening.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.
