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

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

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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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

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