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"Nicholson Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to say: "Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them." I must say that everything in me declines to be addressed in that tone of voice."
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"But strength doesn't always mean brute force. You don't have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn't equal strength. Lead your army by example. There's a better answer to all this. War isn't going to solve anything, but it will tear our two worlds apart, and there will be casualties, including humans. There's nothing heroic about this war. It will lead to a destruction unlike anything you or I have ever seen."
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"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
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"If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm."
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"Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting."
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"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
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"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war."
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"Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that."
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"Never has an angry word spoken ever made this world better."
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"If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs."
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"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."
Attitude
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
Language
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
Conscience
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
Creation
"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest."
Attitude
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
Self-Improvement
"Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves."
Gender
"A gentleman can live through anything."
Strength
"This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them."
Attitude
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
Attitude
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