Compartmentalization is not the root of all evil; it is, however, the principal psychological mechanism of… — M. Scott Peck
Compartmentalization is not the root of all evil; it is, however, the principal psychological mechanism of evil. Deprive an evil man of his capacity to compartmentalize, and he will be like a general without an army. Or better yet, he will undergo a conversion to goodness — a conversion to integrity.
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