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“Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.”

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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

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“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…

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There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his…

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“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a…

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the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to…

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

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