For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top.
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“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Crome Yellow
― Crome Yellow
“They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
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