"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."

-- Max Lerner

#Believe Quotes #Evil Quotes #World Quotes

“Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.”
“[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.”
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
“Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.”
“You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.”
“I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.”

Source : Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake (2015). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.”
“Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.”

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