Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.
nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.
Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.
