“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”—Primo Levi (1947) If This is A Man, recounting the horrors he witnessed in Auschwitz.
“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends and guarded h…
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