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Anthony Esolen

“But it is often easier to compel a hundred people to do what you could never compel one person to do. The lone man must consult his conscience, that stern and unflattering arbiter. A man in a crowd, though, can turn to the others, as the others turn to one another, each justifying the deed by referring to the next man, or to the force of all the men together. This”

Anthony M. Esolen, Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
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