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The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1, Part 1, ch. 4 (1973) [tr. Whitney] - Solzhenitsen, Alexander | WIST Quotations
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble -- and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Ideology -- that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the…