"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

War, Men, Conviction, Evil, Religious

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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

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"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."

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"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

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"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

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"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."

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"Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."

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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

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"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."

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"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

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Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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Martin Luther, German Leader

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"War is the business of barbarians."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

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"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

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"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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