Quotes on Evil - Who do they Remind you of?

[Scriptor Ignotus]

I stumbled upon this site on the web. I recommend checking it out, it's a short read.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_evil.html

Here are a couple of standouts.

James Baldwin:

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Pascal:

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

William Penn:

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.


OK, now think about compassionate conservatism. Now think about the justification for the war in Iraq. Think about everything this administration, and specifically George W Bush has said or done in the past 6 years. Is there any doubt any more that this administration is evil?

[Scriptor Ignotus]

1. some more

Aldous Huxley:

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

Blaise Pascal:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.