Quote About Evils Around Us

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In a letter from the German resistance figure Helmuth James Von Moltke to his wife, he made this telling quote about an uncle of his on the Eastern Front whose approach to the evils of the Reich was broadly to turn a blind eye and lay low:

"No doubt it is more comfortable to feel responsible for a few people only and deliberately wear blinkers that prevent one from seeing the evil done in the discharge of this responsibility--to be unwilling to see that one is defending murder and robbery. In reality it is these people who are the crux of the evil, not the criminals. There are and have been criminals everywhere; but it is the inescapable duty of all the righteous to keep crime within bounds, and whoever evades this task is more guilty than the criminal himself."

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke, Letters to Freya, p.178 - Written from Berlin November 6, 1941.

Ouch.
 
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