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

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

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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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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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

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Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

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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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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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