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#1

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

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#2

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7213 likes

#3

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war

766 likes

#4

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: war

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#5

“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

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#6

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: conformity, morality, murder, obedience, patriotism, war

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#7

“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

tags: countries, love, loyalty, nationality, politics, war

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#8

“Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one”
― John Lennon, Imagine

tags: aspirations, dreams, idealism, nationalism, peace, religion, song-lyrics, unity, war

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#9

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war

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#10

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...
Everything is war. Me say war.
That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation...
Until the color of a man's skin is of
no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!”
― Haile Selassie

tags: racism, war

358 likes

#11

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

3737 likes

#12

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

tags: food, health, medicine

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#13

“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
― Hippocrates

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#14

“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”
― Hippocrates

tags: antecedents, disease, future, harm, medicine, physician, science, time

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#15

“Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.”
― Hippocrates & Galen, Hippocrates | Galen

tags: medicine

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#16

“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”
― Hippocrates

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#17

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish

1235 likes

#18

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: angel, being, earth, faith, heaven, hope, human, kindness, later, life, now

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#19

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: expectation, memory, names, now, present, time

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#20

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water

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#21

“Any day stands
equal to the rest.”
― Heraclitus

tags: cycles, now, present

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#22

“Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

tags: calm, now, peace, present, zen

179 likes

#23

“It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: decide, decision, destination, destiny, don-t-give-up, extra, extra-mile, go, go-ahead, going, gone, high, inspirational, keep-going, know, knowing, knows, motivational, never-give-up, predestination, predestined, success, successful, successful-journey, went, yourself

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#24

“The thing was, if you wanted to survive you had to keep going, Natalie had decided. Even when it hurt. Sometimes, she had discovered, you has to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.”
― Pricilla Cummings

tags: keep-going, life, survive

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#25

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, independent-thought

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#26

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
― charles dickens

tags: honesty

1100 likes

#27

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth

1103 likes

#28

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: children, flow, honesty, integrity, moral-courage, river

516 likes

#29

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

tags: democracy, dissent, heroes, honesty, integrity, truth, truth-telling, virtue

869 likes

#30

“Do not
Blame the world.
Find a solution.”
― Sri Chinmoy, My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment

tags: inspirational, motivational

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