This is from Graham Greene's very fine novel The Human Factor about the sadistic Captain Van Donck, and it compares him to another character-- unnamed, if memory serves. It's a description I often find echoing and blasting as I listen to people.
He was a brutal and simple man who believed in something, however repugnant-- he was one of those one could forgive. What Castle [the novel's narrator] could never bring himself to forgive was this smooth educated office of BOSS. It was men of this kind-- men with education to know what they were about-- that made a hell in heaven's despite.
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