If evil is due to ignorance, then all professors should be saints.
We who live beneath a sky still streaked with the smoke of crematoria have paid a high price to find out that evil is really evil.
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
A duck’s legs, though short, cannot be lengthened without discomfort to the duck; a crane’s legs, though long, cannot be shortened without discomfort to the crane.
