Wednesday, December 08, 2021

An interpretive key to history.


Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they don’t see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

--T.S. Eliot 

Hat-tip to the formidable Tom McDonald for the find.

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