Part I, Ch. 2 : The Evanescence of Evil, § 1
Social Statics (1851)
Contesto: All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
— Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825 - 1895
In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth edition, (1876) Vol. III, "Biology", p. 689.
Also quoted in Joseph Cook (1878), Biology, with Preludes on Current Events, Houghton, Osgood, p. 39
1870s
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10
— William James, Is Life Worth Living?
"Is Life Worth Living?"
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
— Mary Midgley British philosopher and ethicist 1919 - 2018
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979).
— Peter Kropotkin Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer 1842 - 1921
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Contesto: Harmony thus appears as a temporary adjustment, established among all forces acting upon a given spot — a provisory adaptation; and that adjustment will only last under one condition: that of being continually modified; of representing every moment the resultant of all conflicting actions. Let but one of those forces be hampered in its action for some time and harmony disappears. Force will accumulate its effect; it must come to light, it must exercise its action, and if other forces hinder its manifestation it will not be annihilated by that, but will end by upsetting the present adjustment, by destroying harmony, in order to find a new form of equilibrium and to work to form a new adaptation. Such is the eruption of a volcano, whose imprisoned force ends by breaking the petrified lavas which hindered them to pour forth the gases, the molten lavas, and the incandescent ashes. Such, also, are the revolutions of mankind.
— John Marshall fourth Chief Justice of the United States 1755 - 1835
17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316, 421. Regarding the interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Contesto: We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the Government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.
— Snježana Kordić, Jezik i nacionalizam
El purismo aumenta el nacionalismo porque enseña a clasificar todo como croata o no croata, y a que todo lo que supuestamente proceda del propio país se diga que es bueno, mientras que de lo que proceda de otras naciones se diga que es perjudical y malo.
[Kordić, Snježana, w:Snježana Kordić, Snježana Kordić, Lengua y Nacionalismo, Madrid, Euphonía Ediciones, 2014, http://www.euphoniaediciones.com/plataforma/libros/lengua-y-nacionalismo-17-89-22-1-1, 22, 978-84-936668-8-0] (in Spanish)
„Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.“
— Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855
— Richard Pipes American historian 1923 - 2018
Origine: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 278
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Indian guru 1896 - 1977
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 2, Chapter 7, verse 1, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/2/7/1
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science
— Báb Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith 1819 - 1850
Epistle to Muhammad Sháh
„You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.“
— Robert A. Heinlein, libro The Green Hills of Earth
Logic of Empire (p. 335); this is one of the earliest known variants of an idea which has become known as Hanlon's razor.
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Origine: The Green Hills of Earth
— B.F. Skinner American behaviorist 1904 - 1990
In operant conditioning we "strengthen" an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
Science and Human Behavior (1953)
— Lal Bahadur Shastri The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party 1904 - 1966
Shastri as having told Parliament in 1964, during a discussion on refugees from Pakistan,
In speeches to Parliament, PM Modi quotes Nehru, Ambedkar, Shastri on welcoming Hindu refugees. February 7, 2020 https://indianexpress.com/article/india/in-speech-pm-modi-quotes-nehru-ambedkar-shastri-on-welcoming-hindu-refugees-6255071/
— Herbert N. Casson Canadian journalist and writer 1869 - 1951
Origine: 1910s, Ads and Sales (1911), p. 2
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 a.C.
Origine: The Doctrine of the Mean
— Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma Maharaja of Travancore 1922 - 2013
In "When 'Maharaja of Travancore' met Queen Elizabeth II (8 July 2012)".
„Mere abstention from a life of evil does not constitute a life devoted to good works.“
— Lin Carter, libro Kesrick
Origine: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 3, “The Monster-Guarded Gate” (p. 25)
