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Why Even The Good Should Also Be Careful

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Camus, Evil, Good Intentions, Harm, Ignorance, Philosophy, Quotes, Understanding, World on March 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

— Albert Camus

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Christmas Wishes For 2025

Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Family History, General Comments, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Battles, Blessings, Evil, Faith, Family and Friends, Family History, Gaza, General Comments, https://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/, Human History, Human Kindness, Images, Kernels, Life And Fate, Memories, Other Blogs, Pacific Paratrooper, Philosophy, Prayers, Quotes, Time, Ukraine, Vasily Grossman, X-mas 2025 on December 25, 2025| 2 Comments »

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.

— Vasily Grossman
From his book: “Life And Fate“

Merry Christmas to all… !!


Once again, I wish I could say the world is a more peaceful and loving planet since last Christmas, but that would (still) just be the optimist in me speaking. I continue to pray for the lives and freedom of the people of Ukraine and Gaza…

I do hope it (peace and personal safety) is true for anyone reading this and your family / friends (close and extended).

Please reach out to your family and friends. Share with them the gift which really matters: your time! Make memories…

Peace and Namaste to all!!!


[A big shout-out to http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/ for providing today’s image. Please visit the site if you have a chance. — kmab]

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In The Marketplace Of Competing Ideas

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Evil, John Stuart Mill, Opinions, Philosophy, Quotes on May 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

— John Stuart Mill

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And The Truth Will Set You Free

Posted in History, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47DonTheFelon, America First, American Politics, Baltic States, China, David Frum, Economics, Edmund Burke, England, Evil, Former President George W. Bush, Good, History, I Didn't Have My Glasses On, Japan, Lele Saa, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Other Blogs, Pax Americana, Philosophy, Poland, Politics, Quotes, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Russia, SEATO, Slava Ukraini, South Korea, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Spain, Taiwan, Triumph, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, War on March 1, 2025| 7 Comments »

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
9:56 AM · Feb 28, 2025

– David Frum
Speechwriter for Former President George W. Bush

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

– Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

– Edmund Burke (generally attributed to)


art credit: Lele Saa (a Spanish illustrator living in England)
The illustration was posted on one of the blog sites I follow: I Didn’t Have My Glasses On
The specific post was: Slava Ukraini
Please visit the original site if you have a few spare moments…

[I find it difficult to express the amount of disgust I have for our current American Presidential administration.

Americans and our former allies (NATO and SEATO) should make NO mistake, BOTH Russia and China are authoritarian nuclear superpowers and are intent on supplanting the United States as the world’s dominant national actor – economically and militarily.

President Trump may or may not be a “puppet” of Russian leader Putin, but Trump is not acting in the long term “best” interests of the United States or our allies. While all three of the superpowers have the ability to destroy the world, none have the ability to unilaterally command the rest of the world’s nations to do their bidding – and, yes, I include the United States under that limitation.

There is no “Pax Americana” without our allies support.

I am opposed to Ukraine signing any mineral treaty with the United States in exchange for “security”. A U.S. guarantee of security is purely an illusion for the Ukranians (and the rest of the “free” world). There can be no U.S. backed guarantee of security for any country as long as we have our current convicted criminal in the Oval Office. Let’s be clear: President Trump is a man without honor and a contract, which is all a treaty is, means less to him than the paper it is written on. Trump has a lifetime history of ignoring his side of any contract and he has been responsible for the failure of many businesses which made the mistake of delivering on their side of a contract before full payment has been made by his companies.

All of the NATO allies should take full account of President Trump’s actions and recognize there is NO Article V, guarantee of mutual support and defense by the United States any longer (now or in the future). When it is possible for an unethical criminal to be elected President of the United States (and then re-elected), all of our allies must assume it will happen again and base their current and on-going security policy free of illusion.

For now, the other NATO countries are fortunate that Ukraine has so weakened Russia over the last three years, that it will take years for Russia to rebuild their conventional forces so that Russia is again a major ground threat to ALL of Europe. The key for a free Europe is to start developing your security forces NOW, not in two years time when Russia completes their rebuild and finally crushes Ukraine or 3-4 years from now or when Russia invades Poland or the Baltic States.

Unfortunately, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan have not had an immovable object (like Ukraine) to blunt / spend the buildup of conventional Chinese forces as Ukraine as done to Russia for the benefit of the rest of Europe and the Middle East. So, what was true for NATO is now equally valid for SEATO: you cannot rely on the United States for mutual defense.

Trump’s “America first!” really means “America Alone…” to the rest of the world.

A word to the wise should suffice.

— kmab]

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Seek Good

Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Evil, Ignorance, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Socrates on March 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

― Socrates

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6/1 Capitol Riot Commission

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged 6/1 Capitol Riot Commission, Acting, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Evil, God, Guilt, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Silence, Speaking on July 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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There’s Still No Voter Fraud

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Democrats, Evil, Leo Tolstoy, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Republicans, Violence, Voter Fraud on April 6, 2021| 2 Comments »

The evil we use violence against to protect ourselves from is far less evil than the evil we do to ourselves by using violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

[Let’s be clear… There is NO evidence of widespread or organized voter fraud in the United States. The laws being passed to “protect” voting in Georgia, Texas, Michigan, etc., are intended to reduce voter turnout by American citizens – specifically by the young, the poor and people of color because these groups are increasing in number and are “tending” / trending to vote Democratic. These laws are being passed because the Republicans understand / believe they no longer have policies which the majority of American voters support. The Republican party would rather deny their fellow citizens the opportunity to vote than change their policies to promote the general welfare and thereby regain the popular support of the American voter. — kmab]

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Tomorrow: Will Republicans Choose Democracy Or Tyranny?

Posted in History, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #DonTheCon, American Democracy, Choices, Congress, Edmund Burke, Eleanor Roosevelt, Electoral College, Evil, Personal Responsibility, Philosophy, President, President Donald Trump, President Theodore Roosevelt, President-Elect Biden, Quotes, Teddy Roosevelt, Voter Fraud on January 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

— Republican President Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt

[Tomorrow, Congress (both House and Senate) will meet in joint session to “officially” count votes from the electoral college and declare the winner of the 2020 Presidential election. The “winner” of the election was former Vice-President Joe Biden. The loser of the election was the current President: Donald Trump. Biden won the election by over 7 million voters nationwide and surpassed the 270 electoral college votes required to become President. The losing President (Trump) and his political party (the Republicans) are claiming there was voter fraud and election “irregularities” – but, only in the swing states where the President lost the election and only on the votes for the Presidency (not for Republicans who kept their offices while the President did not). There is NO evidence to support claims of either significant voter fraud or irregularity in ANY state. The Republicans are lying to the American public and to the voters they represent in the hopes of furthering their own political careers. The American public has voted. Trump LOST by a significant margin. It is well past time to accept reality and turn to solving the outstanding problems facing our country. Tomorrow we will see which “representatives” (Congressmen and Senators) in our government believe in “democracy” and which are willing to sacrifice our country’s principles for the sake of an incompetent businessman / politician / con-artist. — kmab]

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Policies Not People

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Disagree, Disagreeable, Evil, Leo Tolstoy, Philosophy, Quotes, Ruth Bader Ginsburg on August 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »

We dislike people not because they are evil; we think they are evil because we dislike them.

— Leo Tolstoy

[We must get back to the point where we can disagree without being disagreeable. (A paraphrase of Ruth Bader Ginsburg) — kmab]

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The Chain Must Be Broken

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Abyss, Annihilation, Chain Reaction, Darkness, Evil, Light, Martin Luther King Jr, Philosophy, Quotes, War on August 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction… The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Spirit Of A Fighter, The Heart Of A Saint

Posted in History, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, Change, Commitment To Change, Evil, Georgia, Good, History, Leadership, Light, Love, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, RIP - John R. Lewis, Speak Up, Truth, U.S. Representative John Lewis on July 18, 2020| 2 Comments »

Rest In Peace: John R. Lewis
U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district
21 February 1940 – July 17, 2020

You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. […] Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don’t be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself.

― John Lewis

Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation will not happen right away. Change often takes time. It rarely happens all at once. In the movement, we didn’t know how history would play itself out. When we were getting arrested and waiting in jail or standing in unmovable lines on the courthouse steps, we didn’t know what would happen, but we knew it had to happen.

Use the words of the movement to pace yourself. We used to say that ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. And if we believe in the change we seek, then it is easy to commit to doing all we can, because the responsibility is ours alone to build a better society and a more peaceful world.

― John Lewis

Both quotes are from his book: “Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America“

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Live, Learn And Teach Goodness

Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Actions, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Dying, Evil, Goodness, Learning, Philosophy, Quotes on June 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

— Leo F. Buscaglia

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Just Asking…

Posted in Faith, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Evil, Faith, Goodness, Other Blogs, Patriotism, Philosophy, Poisons, Politics, Questionnaire, Quotes, Sacrifices, Wendell Berry, Willing To Kill, www.brainpickings.org on August 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »

QUESTIONNAIRE
by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons.
2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.
3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.
4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.
5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.

Found at one of the blogs I follow: https://www.brainpickings.org/
The specific post link is: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/14/wendell-berry-questionnaire-amanda-palmer/?mc_cid=e1165a44ab&mc_eid=a1951a747c

Please visit the original site if you have a spare moment. I HIGHLY recommend following this blog, but caution, the posts can be QUITE deep and insightful. — kmab

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A Thought For Those Continuing To Support President Trump

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Evil, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes on September 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

— Albert Einstein

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The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged A Dangerous World, Albert Einstein, Evil, Paul Ryan, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes on July 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »

The world is a dangerous place to be not because of the people who do evil; but because of the people who stand by and let them.

— Albert Einstein

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