"Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."

Sun Tzu on war
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"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."

Kraus, Karl on war
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Sun Tzu on war
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."

Huxley, Aldous on war   

"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."

Hazlitt, William on war
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"Morality is contraband in war."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief."

Franklin, Benjamin on war
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"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers   

"Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers
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"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."

Aesop on misfortunes
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The good man is the friend of all living things."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ignorance
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

Paine, Thomas on questions
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"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

Paine, Thomas on patriotism   

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on love
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"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Jefferson, Thomas on bankers and banking
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"Justice is truth in action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on justice
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing."

Seng-Ts'an on zen
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on argument
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field."

Baldwin, James on america   

"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

Acton, Lord on secrets
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"Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!"

Dickens, Charles on money   

"When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste."

Dickens, Charles on marriage
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"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."

Dickens, Charles on age and aging
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"America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco."

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste on america
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"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam..."

Ballard, J. G. on america
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