Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human life the ills and troubles which beset it. If any, there are those who pretend differently-- who hold out to a hard pressed people freedom from pain and trouble, undisturbed repose and constant enjoyment--then cheat the people and impose upon them their lying promises only making the evil worse than before. The high debt of 40 billion for a nation of 130,000,000 inhabitants together with over 10,000,000 unemployed should be much more our common concern than the happenings in Europe. The nations of Europe were never peaceful and never will be. It is their...
Furthermore, statements have been issued by nearly every University official showing the evil effects of tutoring on education. Not only is there not one sound educational practise to be found among the many schools in the Square, but there is also no fundamental necessity for their existence...
...sense of defeat moves very swiftly, it has no time to become tragic and explicit, and therefore suffering never quite becomes spiritual. No state is ever an end in itself, is ever scrutinized and preserved. [People] do not know the true meaning of wisdom, of evil, of peace...
...nation throw our complete resources, unselfishly and without war profiteering, back of the nations that are physically fighting our battles on foreign fields in the hope that the evil things that menace us may never have to be met physically on our own shores...
...still confronted with the time-worn, but nevertheless basic, problems. Shall we accept brutal, brazen phases of the world as art on a par with the more pleasant and morally pure aspects of our existence? Is there any difference between the moral and the immoral, the good and the evil, in the realm of art? in short, is an ugly truth, well-expressed, to be less acceptable to us than a beautiful truth, equally well-expressed, simply because of its ugliness...