We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.