Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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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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Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.

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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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