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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
“Love, hatred, you have only to choose; they all sleep under the same roof; you can double your existence, caress with one hand and strike with the other.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
“...the real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

J. Gresham Machen
“if religion consists merely in feeling the presence of God, it is devoid of any moral quality whatever. Pure feeling, if there be such a thing, is non-moral. What makes affection for a human friend, for example, such an ennobling thing is the knowledge which we possess of the character of our friend. Human affection, apparently so simple, is really just bristling with dogma. It depends upon a host of observations treasured up in the mind with regard to the character of our friend. But if human affection is thus really dependent upon knowledge, why should it be otherwise with that supreme personal relationship which is at the basis of religion? Why should we be indignant against slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God? Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God.”
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity, Culture, and Liberalism

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
“Russian bolshevism, replacing eastern Christendom by the grim religiosity of Marx, produced a caricature of the evangelical counsels with many a diabolical aspect. There is a good deal of “communism” in monasteries and convents, yet this is based upon a voluntary renunciation of perfect human rights. On account of our free will we can make supreme sacrifices which ennobles our very existence. Bolshevism on the other hand forces us brutally into a parody of monastic life amidst fellow monks and fellow nuns who hate their habit and sigh under the ferocious tyranny of their pseudo-abbot. This evil distortion of an otherwise Christian ideal is more satanic than wanton, a thoroughly pagan and diabolic opposition to Christian existence. This explains also the reason why the Vatican has found stronger words against “altruistic” bolshevism than against egoistic capitalism”
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of The Herd: Or, Procrustes at Large

Robert Greene
“Do not swallow the easy moralism of the day, which urges honesty at the expense of desirability.”
Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

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