Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear in its condemnation, the New York Times said: "Our children's children will still be paying the price for the evil which he brought into the world...
More chilling than the size of the prison empire he built, more terrible than the millions he sent to death or servitude, was the inexorable way he spread-with armies, intrigues and ideologies-a secular religion of evil that threatened every country and every people, every truth and every faith. His regime created slaves; more importantly, at home & abroad his ideology created willing servants...
...incalculable human factor, which Marxism tries hard to deny. There is no doubt that the Communist cause had lost its ablest leader and was, thereby, that much weakened. But more than any single political force in history, Communism seems to have found a way to make sure that the evil that men do will live after them...
...while I am complaining, that while I am grateful for the credit line, I cannot claim to be the originator of the phrase, "It is ideas, not rested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil." The phrase belongs to the late Lord Keynes, as I pointed out in borrowing it. McGeorge Bundy Associate Professor of Government
...ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil," Bundy said. Therefore "we should not be shocked or look surprised" when the universities are questioned in a time of trouble and fear...