Social Evils Quotes

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  Lo único necesario para que triunfe el mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspiración, Sabiduría, Ingenio

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• La desigualdad es la raíz del mal social.

  Pope Francis

  Raíces, Maldad, Social

  Pope Francis@Pontifex, twitter.com. 28 de abril de 2014.

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• Me opongo a la violencia porque cuando parece hacer el bien, el bien es sólo temporal; el mal que hace es permanente.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiración, Paz, Guerra

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). "Gandhi: Selected Political Writings", p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• Ningún hombre elige el mal porque sea malo. Sólo lo confunde con la felicidad, el bien que busca.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Felicidad, Error, Hombres

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). "A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men", Cosimo, Inc.

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• Los hombres nunca hacen el mal tan completa y alegremente como cuando lo hacen por convicción religiosa.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirador, Triste, Religioso

  Pensees no. 894 (ed. 1670)

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• The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Government, People, Evil

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

  Steve Allen

  Evil, Religion, Social

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Pensamiento, Maldad, Humanidad

  "Kailash Satyarthi's crusade to save childhood continues; 60 mn still need him" by Kumkum Das Gupta, www.hindustantimes.com. October 10, 2014.

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• Estoy de acuerdo con Henry George en que detrás de cada gran mal social se encuentra un gran mal político.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Evil, Political, Social

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• Lo censurable, lo peligroso, de los extremistas no es que sean extremistas, sino que son intolerantes. Lo malo no es lo que dicen de su causa, sino lo que dicen de sus oponentes.

  Robert Kennedy

  Superar el mal, Política, Ateísmo

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). "El citable Robert F. Kennedy"

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• ¿Pueden culparme si me persigue el pensamiento de lo mucho que podríamos hacer para remediar los males sociales, si tan sólo tuviéramos una prensa honesta y desinteresada?

  Upton Sinclair

  Media, Evil, Honest

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

  August Strindberg

  Family, Wisdom, Children

  1886 The Son of a Servant.

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• There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Order, Evil

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• ... los males sociales son peligrosamente contagiosos. La política fija de persecución e injusticia contra una clase de mujeres que son débiles e indefensas será necesariamente perjudicial para la causa de todas las mujeres.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Class, Racism, Evil

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• La vivisección es un mal social porque si hace avanzar el conocimiento humano, lo hace a costa del carácter humano.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Personaje, Animal, Maldad

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• I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Long, Evil, Mind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London”, p.2

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Choices

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• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Dream, Expression, Evil

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• I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cristiano, Hombres, Personas

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). "Fuerza para amar"

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• Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Men, Intimate Relationships

  "The Wounded Healer". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1972.

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• No se resuelve si un argumento está justificado simplemente demostrando que tiene alguna utilidad. La distinción no es entre experimentos útiles e inútiles, sino entre comportamientos bárbaros y civilizados. La vivisección es un mal social porque si hace avanzar el conocimiento humano, lo hace a expensas del carácter humano.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Evil, Doe

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Creer, Luchar, Gente

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.

  Samuel Sonrisas

  Spring, Character, Mean

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Men, Position Of Power

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