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The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in…

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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society… — Sheldon Richman
Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or… — Sam Houston
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. — Jose Ramos-Horta
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action… — Tim Daly
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery. — Nelson Mandela
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. — Woodrow Wilson
White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they… — Assata Shakur
I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is… — Stephen Daldry
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and… — Francois Mitterrand

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