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"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."

"If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you."
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"Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure."

"Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments."

"The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice."

"We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment."

"So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible."

"The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries."

"Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war."

"Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace."

"Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed."
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