William Vickrey Quotes
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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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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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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 played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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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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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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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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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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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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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
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Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.
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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
