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Letter "W" » wickedness
«It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
banalities, banality, defying, Eichmann, fearsome, Long Course, summing, summing up, wickedness
«Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.»
«It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Evil,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
according, arranges, free spirit, free state, lays, presuppose, presupposes, scope, spirits, wickedness
«Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; / I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.»
«Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.»
«Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his wickedness.»
«Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, / And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
afflict, appoint, commanded, dwelling house, House of Lords, Israel, Judges, Judges of Israel, moreover, Thine, wickedness
«Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
corrupts, impotence, inadequacies, inadequacy, resentment, wickedness
«It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power»
«Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness»
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