"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
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"Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?"
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"Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction."
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"If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity."
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"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
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"How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world."
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"This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity."
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"Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war"
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"Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature."
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"It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity."
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"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."
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"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another."
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"Humanity lives in its fiction."
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"To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own."
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"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us."
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"The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child."
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"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
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"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts."
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"Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying."
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"The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light."
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