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It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know...more

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An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not ...more

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Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

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That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

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You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have n...more

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The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

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Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.

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Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - th...more

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Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The intention to act violently is accompanied by st...more

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And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that ve...more

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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.