The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. (Václav Havel)

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

Václav Havel

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