"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
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"In war, truth is the first casualty."
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"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do."
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
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"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
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"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."
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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
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"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
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"Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"If we don't end war, war will end us."
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"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise."
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"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
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"Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there."
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"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
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"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
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"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."
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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
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