A Quote by Thomas Holcroft

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

Thomas Holcroft

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Amongst Evils Inquiry Prevent Worst

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Thomas Holcroft
English - Dramatist
December 10, 1745 - March 23, 1809

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Henry Fielding

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

Nelson Mandela

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Byron Katie

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

Gautama Buddha

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Paulo Freire

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

John Milton

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.