"It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended."
-Friedrich Durrenmatt
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"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.“
-Friedrich Durrenmatt
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"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."
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"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
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"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."
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"Power is paradoxical."
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"So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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