“Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.”
“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. ”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.”
“When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?”
“There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”