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" Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. "
Leo Tolstoy
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" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "
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" Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
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" We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. "
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" If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. "
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" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. "
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" Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "
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" An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. "
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" Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. "
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