#evils

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. ↗

— Aeschylus

#believe #blow #cheers #comes #divine

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. ↗

— Aeschylus

#manifold #mortals #nowhere #same #seen

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#acquiring #anything #been #evils #greed

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. ↗

— Howard Dean

#deeply #disappointed #evils #i #just

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#between #choose #evils #food #got

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. ↗

— William Blake

#another #because #devils #expect #god

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ↗

— Louis Dudek

#always #come #evils #first #kinds

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #crude #decent #decent people #devils