"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."
-Hannah Arendt
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.“
-Hannah Arendt
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
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"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
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"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
-Chuck Hagel
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
-Eric Burdon
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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