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I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Learning, Evil
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.63, New Directions Publishing
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.