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We must respect evil, and we must make evil respect us.
— Millennium · 1996
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Here the speaker argues for a two-part stance toward evil: take it seriously rather than dismissing it, and stand firm enough that it has to take you seriously in return. It's a call for wariness combined with strength, not casual optimism about how dark things can get.
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