The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

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

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

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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 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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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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