Charles Trevelyan Quotes

The whole British argument in the [Irish potato] famine was that the poor are poor because of a character defect. It’s a dangerous, mean-spirited. Tired argument.

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

A democracy cannot of course engage in an explicit preventive war. I lament the inability to comprehend the depth of evil to which individuals and communities may sink, particularly when they try to play the role of God to history.

Numbers of starving Catholics had gone to Protestant clergymen and offered to become converts in return for food, and when some of these sickened with the fever, the priests declared it was a judgment on them, and religious hostility became intensified.

No agitation for political reforms could be carried on by a plague-stricken and starving people. Food was what they needed and most urgently demanded. The political argument died away, drowned in cries and petitions for relief, lost in weepings and wailings for the victims who were perishing in hundreds by the roadsides, in the fields, and in their bare and empty houses.

The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

During this glorious reign Ireland has seen 1,225,000 of her children die of famine, starved to death whilst the produce of her soil and their labor was eaten up by a vulture aristocracy, enforcing their rents by the bayonets of a hired assassin army in the pay of the –best of the English Queens’