"Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you."
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"If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace."
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"To hold a pen is to be at war."
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"I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
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"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly."
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"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped."
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"Why can't we all just get along?"
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"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."
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"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."
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"Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard."
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"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance."
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"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."
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"As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism."
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"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."
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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
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"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."
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"The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just."
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"I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy."
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