Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

John Keegan
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  1. [W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity to be outraged, even disgusted by practices equally cruel which, under the hands of strangers, take a different form.

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