“People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Leftism: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse
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