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“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”
Hermann Hesse
Power
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Money
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Pleasure
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Moral Corruption
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Personal Downfall
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Life’s Paradoxes
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“Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.”
T.S. Eliot
Ambition
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Deception
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Violence
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Power Dynamics
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Moral Corruption
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Human Nature
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“When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.”
T.S. Eliot
War
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Justification
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Piracy
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Moral Corruption
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Economic Motivation
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Societal Critique
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“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
Simone Weil
Power
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Possession
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Defilement
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Moral Corruption
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Spiritual Integrity
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Human Actions
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“Contact with the sword causes the same defilement whether it be through the hilt or the point.”
Simone Weil
Sword
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Contact
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Defilement
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Violence Effects
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Moral Corruption
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Conflict Symbols
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“Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
Religious Reflection
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Existential Critique
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Moral Corruption
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Religion
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Corruption
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Critique
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“War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.”
Voltaire
War Crimes
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Political Conflict
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Moral Corruption
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Social Justice
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Military Aggression
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Human Rights
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“Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.”
Voltaire
Clear Laws
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Legal Integrity
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Social Justice
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Moral Corruption
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Legal System
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Law Interpretation
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“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”
Voltaire
Political Lying
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Truth Deception
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Moral Corruption
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Art Manipulation
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Power Politics
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Social Integrity
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“Wickedness is nourished by lust.”
Aristotle
Wickedness
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Lust Influence
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Moral Corruption
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Evil Desires
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Ethical Destruction
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“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
Plato
Stealing Equality
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Moral Corruption
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Crime Punishment
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Ethical Behavior
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Equal Wrongs
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