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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
    1999 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: patriotism, war
    758 likes

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    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war
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    Joseph Heller
    “It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
    ― joseph heller, Catch-22
    tags: death-and-dying, war
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom Of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: pacifism, war
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
    5193 likes

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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    Tom Wolfe
    “A cult is a religion with no political power.”
    ― Tom Wolfe
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, hope, philosophy
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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Karl Marx
    “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: misattributed
    670 likes

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    Karl Marx
    “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: humor, inspirational, last-words
    269 likes

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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    1023 likes

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    Diamanda Galás
    “I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

    And he says,
    How much time do you want?”
    ― Diamanda Galas, The Shit of God
    tags: devil, time
    183 likes



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