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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."


"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."


"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."


"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."


"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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