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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
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless." -W. Somerset Maugham
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." --Lord Acton
"The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it -- because it is a fact." --G. K. Chesterton
...a memorable picture sometimes overwhelms a thousand statistics. When a little girl... fell into a Texas well, the attention of hundreds of millions of people worldwide was riveted on her three-day rescue. During those three days, more than 100,000 invisible children... died of preventable starvation, diarrhea, and disease. -David G. Meyers
“Is it true what the old man had said, that everything evil begins with a forgotten longing?" "No, it begins even earlier, with a disappointed hope."
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." -Russell Baker
Man is the only animal which causes pain to others without any further purpose except to cause it. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. ~ Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), What Is Man?(1906)
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~William Pitt (1756-1806), speech on the India Bill 18 November 1783
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy. ~Warren Buffet
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. --George Orwell
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -- William Shakespeare
Always do what's right. It will gratify half of humankind and astound the other. --Mark Twain
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man." --Joseph De Maistre
"We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded." ~William Easterly, a former senior advisor with the World Bank and author of the book: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics.
"The English-speaking countries, especially the United States and Britain, have a deeply cynical policy of double standards regarding the Islamic world of 1.3 billion people ... In spite of Osama Bin Laden’s violence, his primitive politics and his misogyny he is the most popular figure in this Islamic world, where he has little competition from the corpulent kings, generals, dictators and juntas, who obey orders from the west ... I was with Arabs in Iraq, Jordan and Palestine while they listened to Osama Bin Laden’s first video and saw the reaction: Their faces were wet with tears. He pierced their hearts with his message, which had three arrows: First: That America will never have peace until Palestine has peace and justice. Second: That America will never have peace as long as 6,000 Iraqi children die each month due to U.S. enforced UN sanctions. Third: America will never have peace as long as the west maintains tyrants and puppet rulers in the Islamic world. The Islamic world sees 6,000 Iraqi children die every month for ten years and sees that the west doesn’t care, but when 3,000 people die in the World Trade Centers the whole world shakes and is now on the brink of many wars ... this is part of a pervasive double-standard by which the blood of Americans is worth so much more than the blood of Iraqis or Afghanis." ~George Galloway, MP from Scotland, and Senior Vice Chairman Parliamentary Labour Party Foreign Affairs Committee, Britain.
"With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. " ~Michael Parenti
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." ~John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and author
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