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I cannot therefore accept a view of the wellbeing or welfare of human beings-as of other living things-which is suggested by current zoological conceptions and apparently maintained with more or less definiteness by influential writers; according to which, when we attribute goodness or badness to the manner of existence of[397] any living organism, we should be understood to attribute to it a tendency either (1) to self-preservation, or (2) to the preservation of the community or race to which it belongs-so that what “Wellbeing” adds to mere “Being” is just promise of future being.
How, it is asked, if the true ground of the moral goodness or badness of actions lies in their utility or the reverse, can we explain the broad distinction drawn by Common Sense between the moral and other parts of our nature?
We saw, however, that Common Sense sometimes bids us refuse obedience to bad laws, because “we ought to obey God rather than men” (though there seems to be no clear intuition as to the kind or degree of badness that justifies resistance); and further allows us, in special emergencies, to violate rules generally good, for “necessity has no law,” and “salus populi suprema lex.
The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.
She was so very good herself, I thought, that the badness of other people made her frown all her life.
A book whose badness leaves the reader first with a sense of reluctance (must I really go on?
Men can play that game too, and anybody's shoes can now combine madness and badness with gestures toward utility.
Bloom, after reading the work of some contest winners, declared them "of a badness not to be believed.
The wives of Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart would probably agree with Sonnet 121 : All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
I remember my father, in one of his unpublished letters written more than forty years ago, when the political and social state of the country was gloomy and troubled, and there were riots in many places, goes on, after strongly insisting on the badness and foolishness of the government, and on the harm and dangerousness of our feudal and aristocratical constitution of society, and ends thus: "As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one, flog the rank and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian Rock!" And this opinion we can never forsake, however our Liberal friends may think a little rioting, and what they call popular demonstrations, useful sometimes to their own interests and to the interests of ll and naively asked Balashev through what towns the direct road from there to Moscow passed.
Balashev, who was on the alert all through the dinner, replied that just as "all roads lead to Rome," so all roads lead to Moscow: there were many roads, and "among them the road through Poltava, which Charles XII chose.
" Balashev involuntarily flushed with pleasure at the aptitude of this reply, but hardly had he uttered the word Poltava before Caulaincourt began speaking of the badness of the road from Petersburg to Moscow and of his Petersburg reminiscences.
She most desires to cultivate badness when there is lead in the sky.
" "I long to cultivate the of badness in me.
In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance, here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle.
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