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- You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of…
- Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
- Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods…
- 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in…
- The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless…
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
- To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument…
- It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which…
- Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to…
- It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that…
- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
- Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people,…
- The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as…
- Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
- God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
- The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never…
- The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty,…
- Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
- By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief…
- The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people…
- The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because…
- So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather…
- The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it…
- It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a…
- Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle