W. H. Auden Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

  W. H. Auden

  Learning, Israel, Evil

  "September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)

• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Bed, Tables

  "Herman Melville" l. 17 (1939)

• Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

  W. H. Auden

  Compassion, Evil, Return

  "September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)

• Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Politics, Imagine

  "A Certain World". Book by W. H. Auden, 1970.

• Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Father, Loneliness

  W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.7, Princeton University Press

• Accurate scholarship can
  unearth the whole offence
  from luther untill noe
  that has driven a culture mad.
  From what occured at linz
  what huge imago made
  a psychopathic god.
  i and the public know
  what all schoolchildren learn
  those to whom evil is done
  do evil in return.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Mad, Culture

  "September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)

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