"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."
"I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another."
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Source: The Secret of Victorious Living: Sermons on Christianity Today. Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1934.
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