The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
— H. L. Mencken
Franklin King MDtwitter.comThe urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. — H. L. Mencken

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instagram.com“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. . . . To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation”—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”... See more
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