Adin Ballou Quotes

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

Adin Ballou

• Righteousness
• Wickedness
• Butchery

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• Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • World
  • God

• It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

  

  Virat Kohli
  • Careers
  • Extraordinary
  • Cricketers

• The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Got

• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Way
  • Philosophy

• To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Truth
  • Requires
  • Contemplation

• If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

  

  Confucius
  • Desire
  • Answer
  • Kingdom

• It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Life
  • Growing
  • VItal

• Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Children
  • Family
  • Dad

• After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Sympathy

• If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Car
  • Risks
  • Achieved

• Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Should
  • Media
  • Entertainment

• I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believe
  • Followers
  • Redeemer

• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Living
  • Goodness

• It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Righteousness
  • Prevail

• How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

  

  Adin Ballou
  • Righteousness
  • Wickedness
  • Butchery