Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Category: evil
Disinformation
Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered … History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Goal achieved
We will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.
No compromise with evil
In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Crimes of ego
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong?
Mission creep
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly-prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
Fighting evil
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Speed is no justification
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Good intentions
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.
Moral indignation
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.