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“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of th...”
“People want to share but they usually dont.People dont talk to each other about real things because theyre afraid of how theyll be judged. Or they think other people dont have the capacity to carry...”
“The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.”
“How little we know the ones we love. How little we know of anyone, in the end.”
“All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.”
“Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.”
“It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.”
“Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.”
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations betw...”
“High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satell...”
“The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of our lives, a career, a respected vocation. Bright, alert young men and w...”
“There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and the American Indians never took to it well. But these dissenters were wiped out, and a cultural p...”
“I sometimes think that normal, everyday life is only a delusion. We walk on a think crust of earth which we call peace; and every now and again we can hear a rumble below our feet; and sometimes th...”
“Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
“You fight by rules to keep your humanity”
“We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.”
“You will never be able to push a button and kill people. You will not avoid the horrors. War must be so terrible that people will do almost anything to avoid it. It must be the last resort and in t...”
“It's the young who will lead us to the future."Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon”
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
