"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
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"We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery."
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"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
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"True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward."
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"The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up."
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"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."
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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
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"All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace."
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"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?"
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"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man."
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
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"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty."
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"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
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"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
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"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear"
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"The future depends on what we do in the present."
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