"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."

Man, Men, War, Being

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"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I teach that all men are mad."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."

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"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

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"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."

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"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."

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"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."

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