Good is positive.
Evil is merely privative,
not absolute: it is like cold,
which is the privation of heat.
All evil is so much death or nonentity.
Benevolence is absolute and real.
So much benevolence as a man hath,
so much life hath he.
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Good is positive.
Evil is merely privative,
not absolute: it is like cold,
which is the privation of heat.
All evil is so much death or nonentity.
Benevolence is absolute and real.
So much benevolence as a man hath,
so much life hath he.
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president
was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment
awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases
which were pending had a social and economic bias.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions
but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition
that morality can be maintained without religion.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that
national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog.
It was not pre arranged.
It just happened that the driver made a demand
and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand.
I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
One strength of the communist system of the East
is that it has some of the character of a religion
and inspires the emotions of a religion.