Tuesday, January 25, 2005
“Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
- Oliver Goldsmith (c.1728 – 1774), Irish dramatist, poet and writer: “The Good Natur’d Man”, 1768.
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919), American President: ‘Latitude and Longitude among Reformers’ in “The Strenuous Life”, 1900.
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
- Harper Lee (b. 1926), American author: Atticus Finch to his son Jem, in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, 1960.
“I don’t know what the face of justice is – sometimes it’s masculine, sometimes it’s feminine – that is where ambiguity resides: in questions of morality.”
- Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1951), Spanish film-maker: quoted in “Sight and Sound” (London), April 1992.
“One and the same thing can at the same time be good and bad, for example, music is good to the melancholy, bad to the mourner, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.”
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677), Dutch philosopher and theologian: “Ethics”, 1677.
- Oliver Goldsmith (c.1728 – 1774), Irish dramatist, poet and writer: “The Good Natur’d Man”, 1768.
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919), American President: ‘Latitude and Longitude among Reformers’ in “The Strenuous Life”, 1900.
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
- Harper Lee (b. 1926), American author: Atticus Finch to his son Jem, in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, 1960.
“I don’t know what the face of justice is – sometimes it’s masculine, sometimes it’s feminine – that is where ambiguity resides: in questions of morality.”
- Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1951), Spanish film-maker: quoted in “Sight and Sound” (London), April 1992.
“One and the same thing can at the same time be good and bad, for example, music is good to the melancholy, bad to the mourner, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.”
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677), Dutch philosopher and theologian: “Ethics”, 1677.
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