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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other…
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After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to…
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life…
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the…
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a…
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no…
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and…
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it…
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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war…
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to…
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One,…
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion.…
— Frederic Bastiat
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It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they…
— H. L. Mencken
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The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it…
— John Boyd Orr
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No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion,…
— George Carlin
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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that reason is morally worse than murder or…
— William Blum
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