"To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one."
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"Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together."
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"Violence is sometimes a duty."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
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"The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace."
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"The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war."
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"I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace."
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"I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason."
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"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."
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"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."
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"The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."
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"The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."
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"Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit."
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"Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace."
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"If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble."
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"The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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"Conformity is the ape of harmony."
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