Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I the British and American propagandists made much of Nietzsche's wicked writings "The Antichrist," "Beyond Good and Evil", and "Thus Spake Zarathustra"--to prove that the Kaiser and his clique (none of them had probably ever read or even heard of the books) were leagued with the devil. Today the German rulers not only read but preach from Nietzschean texts. By careful excision the official Nazi philosophers have adapted Nietzche's works to buttress and lend a respectable philosophical aura to their case. Friedrich Nietzsche who despised his contemporary Germans, who was bitterly anti-anti-semitic...
Forces of Evil...
...Have read the letter from Mary Rohrabaugh of Youngstown that says, "I hate war" [TIME, March 10]. Who doesn't? Lincoln, too, hated war, so did Washington, so does all the civilized Christian world; but the time to cry out against it is past when the evil forces in the world make it inevitable. Lincoln and Washington mourned the sacrifice of the youth of our land to war in their day, but they had no choice...
Like the New Dealers, the Student Council just loves to meet its problems by creating bureaus, investigations, and committees. Like the New Dealers also, it is a little inclined to feel that said creations are in themselves a solution for the evil or maladjustment, that if you let the committee alone for a while it will turn up with an enlightened "report" which will straighten out the whole nasty business. It will not do for the Council to take such a comfortable laissez-faire attitude toward its latest baby, the Permanent Committee on Curriculum and Tenure...
...worried parent asks: "Should I therefore teach deceit, dishonor, ruthlessness, bestial force to the children in order that they survive?" He answered it as most worried parents do: "Better that they perish." For "virtue is an end in itself ... it is better for men to die than to call evil good. ..." He knew that he and all men like him could never be really defeated, because they could never be changed...