"Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes" - and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes

— and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

G.K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

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