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If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything… — Arundhati Roy
All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final… — Andre Trocme
More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the… — John F. Kennedy
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest… — Hannah Arendt
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement… — W. Somerset Maugham
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a… — Robert Penn Warren
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance — Philip Larkin
When [a politician] is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation — Tony Benn
In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said — Tony Benn
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. — Newt Gingrich
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for… — Aristotle
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely… — Gore Vidal
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. — Edward Albee
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. — Jean Genet
Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself… — Marian Seldes
When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your… — Rita Rudner
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. — Anita Roddick

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