James Agee Quotes

The Passion For Vengeance Is A Terrifyingly Strong One, Very Easily And Probably Inevitably Wrought Up By Such Evidence [of Atrocities], Even At Our Distance. But However Well Aware I Am Of Its Strength, And That In Its Full Immediate Force And Expression It Is In Some Respects Irrelevant To Moral Inquiry, I Doubt That It Is Ever To Be Honored, Or Regarded As Other Than Evil And In Every Direction Fatally Degrading And Destructive; Even When It Is Obeyed In Hot Blood Or In A Crisis Of Prevention; Far Worse When It Is Obeyed In Cold Blood And In The Illusion Of Carrying Out Justice.

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