4 Quotes by Kanan Makiya

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    In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.

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    Suggesting evil is human doesn’t mean we can always understand it.

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    He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.

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    Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.

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