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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
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"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."
"A few days earlier, in front of his guests at his own birthday celebration, this man had started smashing his own crockery and tearing his and his wife's clothes, because he was not offered enough vodka; then he went on to break every stick of furniture in his house and smash all the windows, and he did it all for the "beauty" of the gesture, as Mr. Karamazov had just now."
"Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine."
"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction."
"Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction."
"Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction."
"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."
"Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression."
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"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
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