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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.