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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
"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."
"Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs."
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
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"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."
"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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