Wednesday, November 23, 2005

the evil that lies within us

Yes I believe that the statement "Evil is Inherent in the Hearts ofMen" is true. Everybody has evil in them although a restriction would have to be put on the statement to say that evil is inherent in men but it is the power to overcome the evil.

But it’s not faces in clouds that haunt me the most. It’s more discernible, human faces that tend to trouble my sleeping and waking hours. The most threatening “faces of evil” are a lot closer to home than up in the heavens (or down in hell) somewhere. They are, rather, the faces of people who have done (and still do) unspeakably horrible things to other human beings (not to mention horrible things to the Earth itself).

Evil comes in many forms and many ways....if we all bring evil out for different reasons and the most difficult dangerous evil of all is the evil one does in desperation.

One can only be pushed so much till you back is against the wall the they fight back...sometimes for the right or wrong reason..in the final analysis...it is still evil...but justifyable

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mahatma Gandhi:

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Bob Marley (Redemption Song):

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds ...

Bertrand Russell
(Principles of Social Reconstruction):

Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages ...
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back — fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.

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