 There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that miser)' which he strives...  The Christian socialist - Sayfa 1391883Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Jan Cooper - 1996 - 130 sayfa
...for peace, why aren't they getting any results?" Thoreau looked up at Goldstein. "There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." "And it is that one who counts, Henry David." "Don't mind his patronizing tone, Goldstein," said Thoreau with... | |
 | Marnie Jones - 326 sayfa
...such as Lowell. In Thoreau he found confirmation of his belief. He marked the following passage in Walden: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - 1999 - 84 sayfa
...it may commend itself to some good people who have large experience of the results of alms-giving: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil...at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the tjames Russell Lowell. largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his inodc... | |
 | S. D. Perry - 1999 - 260 sayfa
...Simon & Schuster, Inc. Cover art by Gerber Studio Printed in the USA For my editor, Marco Palmieri There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — HENRY DAVID THOREAU PROLOGUE Associated Press, October 6, 1998 THOUSANDS KILLED AS PIBE SWEEPS... | |
 | Kenneth Wooden - 2000 - 300 sayfa
...families, and society as a whole is simply too vast even to imagine. To quote Henry David Thoreau, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Because the thought of sexual crimes against children is repulsive to the majority of people, generations... | |
 | Jerome P. Baggett - 2000 - 318 sayfa
...enough. The system receives little criticism. If, as Henry David Thoreau once scornfully declared, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," it seems many at Habitat are doing a good deal of hacking at the expense of more carefully aimed blows... | |
 | 92 sayfa
...with it and do not merely abandon it to them." As for reform, in most cases it does not go far enough: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau believes that benevolence should be "the flower and fruit" of a person, that our "goodness... | |
 | Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, Deborah Fripp - 2000 - 262 sayfa
...was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time. — Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803 There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau In Walden, 1854 All that you find within your ability... | |
 | Tim Smith - 2002 - 100 sayfa
...for the minutemen when they arrived in the town that morning, after an initial skirmish in Lexington. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. The inspirational spire of the First Parish Church rises above Wright's Tavern in this historical view... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 sayfa
...attacked merely in its effects, which will be perpetually recurrent so long as its causes lie undetected. "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," as Thoreau wrote. Woolman's pleas to slave-owners and his attempts to convert the Indians were mostly... | |
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