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"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
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"The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."

"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."
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"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."

"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."

"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."

"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."

"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."

"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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