“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” — Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
Tag: evil
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“The presence of evil, once scented, tends to bring out all that is most irrational and uncontrollable in the public imagination. It is a catalyst for pea-brained theories, gimcrack scholarship, and the credulous cosmologies of hysteria.” — Michael Chabon, “The God of Dark Laughter,” The New Yorker (2001-04-09)
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, (1825-02-21)
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“Evil only prevails when we mistake it for the norm.” — Maria Popova, Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
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“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.” — John Steinbeck, Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
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“Evil people never believe they are evil, but rather that everyone else is evil.” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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“It is not always or even often the bad person who does evil and, in the hope that it will make you more understanding of those who do wrong, because they can be, they are, you and me.” — Guido Calabresi, 70th Commencement Address, Connecticut College (1988)
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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
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“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.” — William James
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.” — William James, Letter to E.L. Godkin (24 December 1895) The Letters of William James, Vol. II
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