Bernard Lown Quotes
I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.
Quotes to Explore
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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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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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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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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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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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
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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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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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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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An evil life is a kind of death.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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You are my evil spirit... you and the hard course world!
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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
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There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.
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In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temptation, it is not more than you can bear. It is bearable. It can be handled. You can know as Joseph knew, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive" (Genesis 50:20).
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
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I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.
