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"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence"."

"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."

"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."

"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."

"All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial."

"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced."

"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."

"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."
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