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Letter "V" » victims
«The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.»
«Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.»
«The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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About:
War
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Keywords:
beings,
condemned,
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conventions,
human beings,
individual,
instruments,
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politics,
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the Convention,
the conventions,
victims
«The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round»
«When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.»
«We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.»
«The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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Keywords:
accomplices,
account,
austere,
heartless,
injustice,
innocent,
performance,
sacrifices,
self-discipline,
self-disciplined,
take account,
The Accomplice,
The God,
the self,
victims,
vigilance
«Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
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