Dirty
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
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“As for me, my hands are dirty. Right up to the elbows. I have plunged them in shit and blood.”
This statement by the head of the Communist Party in Sartre’s play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) is now seen as a reiteration of Machiavelli’s 15th century maxim: anyone who enters the corridors of power must be prepared to come into contact with filth. “Dirty hands” became the 20th century metaphor for a condition when good ideals are ach
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