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There is a fundamental inconsistency between war and freedom.
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It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong.
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One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
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How nations, let alone regions and communities, are to shape and protect themselves within this "global economy" is far from clear.
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Its tendency is just as much toward total dominance and control.
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We are disposed, somewhat by culture and somewhat by nature, to solve our problems by violence, and even to enjoy doing so.
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We cling in our public life to a brutal hypocrisy.
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In a modern war, fought with modern weapons and on the modern scale, neither side can limit to “the enemy” the damage that it does. These wars damage the world.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call “the economy” or “the free market” is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
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The distinction between the intention to perpetrate violence against innocents, as in "terrorism," and the willingness to do so, as in "war," is not a source of comfort.
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Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness "to act alone," its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.
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It can be guaranteed only by our willingness that all other persons should live, be free, and be at peace — and by our willingness to use or give our own lives to make that possible.
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Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
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If you know even as little history as I do, it is hard not to doubt the efficacy of modern war as a solution to any problem except that of retribution — the “justice” of exchanging one damage for another.
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