Charles Hampden-Turner Quotes

It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

Charles Hampden-Turner

• Evil
• Angry
• Lying
• Differences
• Vain
• Distinction
• Reconciliation

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Teach

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • You
  • Angry
  • Horse

• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Bad
  • You
  • Differences

• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Wisdom
  • Differences

• The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Justice
  • Angry

• The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Angry

• If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Lying
  • Say

• 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
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Religious

• When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Cold
  • Angry
  • Clam

• I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Great
  • Voice
  • Angry

• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Door
  • Open

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Good
  • Evil

• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Evil
  • Effort

• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Great

• Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Spirit
  • Looks
  • Frodo

• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • World
  • Music
  • Changed

• It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

  

  Charles Hampden-Turner
  • Evil
  • Angry
  • Lying