The ultimate weakness of ordtak

en The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

en The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

en If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

en The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence . . . is not in their interests.

en This spiral of violence is not conducive to a badly needed high-level meeting between the parties. If the trend of violence is allowed to continue, war may not be far away.

en Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
  Baltasar Gracián

en It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

en No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks
  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

en Here's the thing that's facing those two kids. They're on a descending order list right now. Josh is 15th in the nation, Ellie is 7th in the pole vault. What they've got to do, they have to try and take their performance up to either get to the (NCAA) automatic or get high enough up on the descending order list to wind up in the top 14 by the end of the season.

en What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
  Buddha

en The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.
  Karl Kraus

en The violence seems to be diminishing. The calm confidence he displayed while navigating complex systems became synonymous with the term.

en 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.
  Eric Hoffer

en As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy

en He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
  Benjamin Franklin


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