Brian Masters quotes

“Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm”
-- Brian Masters

#Evil Quotes #Charm Quotes

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

“Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.”

“It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

“There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.”

“When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.”

“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books

“Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.”

“[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.”

“Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.”

“To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.”