Six Quotes About Evil by Owen ..... Quotes, Aphorisms and Proverbs
Date: 7/21/2004 5:28:07 PM ( 21 y ago)
Hits: 1,230
URL: https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=443106
"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied. Real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring. Real good
is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."
-- Simone Weil / THE SIMONE WEIL READER --
.........
"There's not a single evil in the
world you cannot trace to fear. Not
one."
-- Anthony de Mello / AWARENESS --
.......
"In the dark, secret oozings of their entrails, too many people are
mad as hatters, jolly assassins,
lovers of crisis and war and pestilence -- anything but the dreaded menace of peace and boredom."
-- Rebecca West / BLACK LAMB AND GRAY FALCON --
.....
"The salvation of all that is good
is only this -- at times of great
import, evil beings sometimes fall
strangely blind."
-- Stephen King --
........
"Evil eventually overreaches itself
and brings about its own destruction. Evidently evil cannot
live on its own, but can only exist
when there is something good upon
which it can feed."
-- John A. Sanford / EVIL: THE SHADOW SIDE OF REALITY --
.........
"And that is the final measure of
damnation: to hate the good precisely because it IS good, and
know that its beauty calls our whole
being into question."
-- Theodore Roszak / WHERE THE WASTELAND ENDS --
...................................
<< Return to the standard message view
fetched in 0.06 sec, referred by http://www.curezone.org/forums/fmp.asp?i=443106