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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
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