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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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