“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
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“In youth one believes in democracy, later on, one has to accept it.”
Diary entry (20 March 1919), quoted in David Marquand, ‘ MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34704,’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 <br class="br">1910s
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