There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. 'I LOVE' could be virtuous or not - you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. What's the direct object? from Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013. Douglas Wilson
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Unknown
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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J.k. Rowling
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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Oscar Wilde
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
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Joyce Carol Oates
It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?
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Pamela Dean
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