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Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…

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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.…
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it…
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to…
Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being....
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war…
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware…
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality…

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