Arno Gruen Quotes
We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.Arno Gruen
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
Barbara Jordan -
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt -
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.
Hans Kung -
The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
Danica Patrick -
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman -
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise -
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza -
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Orson Welles -
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.
Ted Dekker -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
Natasha Trethewey -
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
Adam Hamilton -
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
Basil Hume -
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken -
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
Walter Lang -
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
Barry O'Farrell
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That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.
L. Tom Perry -
I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.
Zell Miller -
Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.
Arno Gruen