"Badness cannot succeed even in being bad..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.”

“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”

“We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.”

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”

“How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!”

“I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.”

“It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.”

“That which is inherent in man is his virtue.”