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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Immanuel Kant
Lying, Evil
Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Immanuel Kant
Procrastination, Evil, Impatience

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant
Peace, War, Evil
Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Immanuel Kant
Evil, Principles, Reason
Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning: From the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Perpetual Peace & Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.51, e-artnow

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