Horace Mann Quotes about Evil

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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Horace Mann

Reality, Men, Evil

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.215

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Horace Mann

Adversity, Evil, Mercy

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Horace Mann

Punishment, Evil, Prevention

"Lectures and Annual Reports on Education".

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

Horace Mann

Night, Fire, Evil

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

Horace Mann

Philosophy, Cutting, Evil

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.11

Horace Mann Quotes about Evil

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