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- Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
- Steve Almond
- For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
- Book of Common Prayer, Burial Service
- I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967
- Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
- One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
- Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
- Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ), The Gulag Archipelago
- You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- People don't start wars, governments do.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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