Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
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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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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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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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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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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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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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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.
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Evil changes everybody!
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.
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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.
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There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
