Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compassion, on the relative merits of Christianity and Buddhism, on such problems as the possibility of an animal's attaining Buddhahood without first passing through the human phase. From them he learned, and through them he was profoundly drawn toward that subtle, serenely intricate theology which traces all evil to the pig (Ignorance), the cock (Ego, Desire), the serpent (Anger); which insists: ""The cruelty of the tyrant is as worthy of pity as the groans of the slave...
Three Kinds of Evil. If Germany should win the Battle of Britain, what would become of the British Fleet? One extreme possibility is that it would withdraw, along with the British-controlled units of the French Fleet, to the Western Hemisphere, to carry on the war. The other extreme possibility is that it would go to Germany intact...
...inspired seers of Israel. The uniqueness of our Torah lies in the unequivocal assertion that the moral law comes from God. This means that human happiness is inconceivable without obedience to that law. . . . Morality is not an elective in the school of human life. . . . The forces of evil which now threaten our very existence pursued their diabolic purposes with fierce and unflinching determination. . . . Contrast their remarkable steadiness of purpose and resolute will with the indecision, halfheartedness and hypocritical behavior of those who rendered profuse lip service to the cause of peace and democracy...
...frailty or under controlled forces do that which deviates from the main stream of the ideal-but right or wrong, in victory or in defeat, in self-fulfillment or in frustration, we will not dissolve our partnership with God. He wages no Blitzkrieg against the forces of destruction and evil, but acts inexorably like the orderly succession of the hours, and brings doom upon the haughty pretenders to divine prerogatives. . . . Israel dare not die-because humanity needs its message...
...Tempter. Craving, a low state of creative energy, is the root of rebellion, and rebellion likewise is a state of sin or death. The technique by which the hostile power of the world is "bound" is broadly similar to Tolstoy's or Gandhi's nonresistance of evil...