If the end does not justify the means - what can?
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The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.Edward Abbey
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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