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Letter "P" » perpetrated
«Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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«Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.»
«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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«Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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«Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.»
«There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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«He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Evil
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«One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
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«Man's inhumanity to man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad. It is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
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