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Quote from Francois Mauriac,


"The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man’s ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling."


By:

Francois Mauriac (more quotes by Francois Mauriac or books by/about Francois Mauriac)


(1885-1970) French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, journalist, member of the Académie française, Nobel Prize in Literature (1952)

Source:

Second Thoughts, 1961

Categories:

Hypocrisy, Power, Violence

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