“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
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“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”
― The Autobiography of Mark Twain
― The Autobiography of Mark Twain
“I had screwed up. Grown-ups didn’t go around blurting out troublesome things to people. You couldn’t just blithely disclose something that would then make it impossible to greet them with a smile the next day.”
― Strange Weather in Tokyo
― Strange Weather in Tokyo
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin – one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war.”
― The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
― The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”
― Hymn to Zeus
― Hymn to Zeus
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