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"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."
"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."
"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."
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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."
"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."
"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
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