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"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."
"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."
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"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."
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