Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breeden said, "Our nation is wrong in Vietnam. No conceivable good could flow from our presence that outweighs the evil, and no conceivable evil could flow from our withdrawal that outweighs the good...
Doubtless objection will be made on the grounds that politics already do enter into faculty appointment (of the Jack Stauder case). But even if this objection is valid, which I believe it is, it is still insufficient. That evil is already being accomplished is no excuse for accomplishing more...
...unreasonable or illegitimate, and not because it has been "categorized" as such a priori. One can not be immobilized by the thought that somewhere on the distant horizon may loom a possibility that might prove hazardous. Edmund Burke-no revolutionary-wrote: "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing...
Edsall added that he was not, however, introducing the motion primarily because of the war's effects on the University. "We are introducing the motion because of the broader evil effects that the war has inflicted on all U. S. society," he said...
Treigle is an intensely religious man. "I was raised as a Baptist," he says, "but my religion really is the Bible." He takes a moralistic view of his evil doings in opera: "What better sermon could there be than the destruction of Satan?" His wife approves for another reason. "He's so kind and gentle at home. That's probably because he gets all the meanness out of his system on the stage...