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Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

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The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

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she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

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Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

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Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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The most important time is Now

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

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