Dennis Prager - Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, ...

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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager

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Obwohl Bilder der Perfektion im persönlichen Leben der Menschen Unglück bringen können, können Bilder perfekter Gesellschaften - utopische Bilder - ungeheures Übel verursachen. Tatsächlich war die gewaltsame Veränderung der Gesellschaft, um sich den gesellschaftlichen Bildern anzupassen, die größte Ursache für das Böse im 20. Jahrhundert.

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